CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-49468
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-02-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
thermal/core: Fix memory leak in __thermal_cooling_device_register()
I got memory leak as follows when doing fault injection test:
unreferenced object 0xffff888010080000 (size 264312):
comm "182", pid 102533, jiffies 4296434960 (age 10.100s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 .....N..........
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 40 7f 1f b9 ff ff ff ff ........@.......
backtrace:
[<0000000038b2f4fc>] kmalloc_order_trace+0x1d/0x110 mm/slab_common.c:969
[<00000000ebcb8da5>] __kmalloc+0x373/0x420 include/linux/slab.h:510
[<0000000084137f13>] thermal_cooling_device_setup_sysfs+0x15d/0x2d0 include/linux/slab.h:586
[<00000000352b8755>] __thermal_cooling_device_register+0x332/0xa60 drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c:927
[<00000000fb9f331b>] devm_thermal_of_cooling_device_register+0x6b/0xf0 drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c:1041
[<000000009b8012d2>] max6650_probe.cold+0x557/0x6aa drivers/hwmon/max6650.c:211
[<00000000da0b7e04>] i2c_device_probe+0x472/0xac0 drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c:561
If device_register() fails, thermal_cooling_device_destroy_sysfs() need be called
to free the memory allocated in thermal_cooling_device_setup_sysfs().
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.14 < 5.10.121)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.46)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.17.14)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.18 < 5.18.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18530bedd221160823f63ccc20dd55c7a03edbcf Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/21ccc58b671aea924f2481cf5c1cf0ebbfd3552d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3802171f0b5b8b831f4ade5c827547cb323a5bb2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/98a160e898c0f4a979af9de3ab48b4b1d42d1dbb Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9abdf0c0184230f0cb5c6685aabf33dda89aa9fb Patch