CVE-2022-27950

medium

Description

In drivers/hid/hid-elo.c in the Linux kernel before 5.16.11, a memory leak exists for a certain hid_parse error condition.

References

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/03/13/1

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/817b8b9c5396d2b2d92311b46719aad5d3339dbe

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=817b8b9c5396d2b2d92311b46719aad5d3339dbe

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.16.11

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-03-28

Updated: 2022-04-05

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium