cve-2022-49808
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-05-01 14:09
Modified
2025-05-01 14:09
Severity ?
Summary
net: dsa: don't leak tagger-owned storage on switch driver unbind
Impacted products
LinuxLinux
LinuxLinux
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