cve-2022-49896
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-05-01 14:10
Modified
2025-05-04 08:48
Severity ?
Summary
cxl/pmem: Fix cxl_pmem_region and cxl_memdev leak
Impacted products
LinuxLinux
LinuxLinux
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