CVE-2022-50544 PUBLISHED

usb: host: xhci: Fix potential memory leak in xhci_alloc_stream_info()

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 07.10.2025 Published: 07.10.2025 Updated: 07.10.2025

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

usb: host: xhci: Fix potential memory leak in xhci_alloc_stream_info()

xhci_alloc_stream_info() allocates stream context array for stream_info ->stream_ctx_array with xhci_alloc_stream_ctx(). When some error occurs, stream_info->stream_ctx_array is not released, which will lead to a memory leak.

We can fix it by releasing the stream_info->stream_ctx_array with xhci_free_stream_ctx() on the error path to avoid the potential memory leak.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 7fc6bab3413e6a42bb1264ff7c9149808c93a4c7 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to e702de2f5c893bf2cdb0152191f99a6ad1411823 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to ddab9fe76296840aad686c66888a9c1dfdbff5ff (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 9fa81cbd2dd300aa8fe9bac70e068b9a11cbb144 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 91271a3e772e180bbb8afb114c72fd294a02f93d (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to fcd594da0b5955119d9707e4e0a8d0fb1c969101 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to a40ad475236022f3432880e3091c380e46e71a71 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 782c873f8e7686f5b3c47e8b099f7e08c3dd1fdc (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 7e271f42a5cc3768cd2622b929ba66859ae21f97 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • unaffected from 4.9.331 to 4.9.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 4.14.296 to 4.14.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 4.19.262 to 4.19.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.4.220 to 5.4.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.150 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.75 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.19.17 to 5.19.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.0.3 to 6.0.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1 to * (incl.)

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