CVE-2022-49793

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 4.9.334 - Memory Leak

Title source: rule

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: trigger: sysfs: fix possible memory leak in iio_sysfs_trig_init() dev_set_name() allocates memory for name, it need be freed when device_add() fails, call put_device() to give up the reference that hold in device_initialize(), so that it can be freed in kobject_cleanup() when the refcount hit to 0. Fault injection test can trigger this: unreferenced object 0xffff8e8340a7b4c0 (size 32): comm "modprobe", pid 243, jiffies 4294678145 (age 48.845s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 69 69 6f 5f 73 79 73 66 73 5f 74 72 69 67 67 65 iio_sysfs_trigge 72 00 a7 40 83 8e ff ff 00 86 13 c4 f6 ee ff ff r..@............ backtrace: [<0000000074999de8>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1e9/0x360 [<00000000497fd30b>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x44/0x1a0 [<000000003636c520>] kstrdup+0x2d/0x60 [<0000000032f84da2>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x1e/0x90 [<0000000092efe493>] dev_set_name+0x4e/0x70

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0006
EPSS Percentile 19.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-401
Status published

Affected Products (13)

linux/linux_kernel < 4.9.334
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/Kernel < 4.9.334linux
linux/Kernel < 4.14.300linux
linux/Kernel < 4.19.267linux
linux/Kernel < 5.4.225linux
linux/Kernel < 5.10.156linux
linux/Kernel < 5.15.80linux
linux/Kernel < 6.0.10linux

Timeline

Published May 01, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026