CVE-2022-50342

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: floppy: Fix memory leak in dofloppyinit A memory leak was reported when floppyallocdisk failed in dofloppyinit. unreferenced object 0xffff888115ed25a0 size 8: comm "modprobe", pid 727, jiffies 4295051278 age 25.529s hex dump firs...

CVE-2022-50342

CVE-2022-50342 affects the Linux kernel floppy subsystem: memory leak in do_floppy_init() when floppy_alloc_disk() fails, leaking set->tag in the error path. The issue is resolved by freeing the current drive’s set->tag before returning. Connected advisories (SUSE OSV and Astra Linux) corro...