CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-49793
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-05-01
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
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
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.0 < 4.9.334)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.14.300)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.267)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.225)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.156)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.80)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.0.10)
• linux linux kernel 6.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0dd52e141afde089304de470148d311b05c14564 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c4e65285bdea23fd36d2ff376006ac64db6f42e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a39382aa5411d64b25a71516c2c7480aab13bb7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/656f670613662b6cc77aad14112db2803ad18fa8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8dddf2699da296c84205582aaead6b43dd7e8c4b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b47bb521961f027b4dcf8683337a7a1ba9e5ea1f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/efa17e90e1711bdb084e3954fa44afb6647331c0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f68c96821b61d2c71a35dbb8bf90c347fad624d9 Patch