{"id":"CVE-2022-49793","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2022-49793","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T17:45:42.453Z","title":"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…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\niio: trigger: sysfs: fix possible memory leak in iio_sysfs_trig_init()\n\ndev_set_name() allocates memory for name, it need be freed\nwhen device_add() fails, call put_device() to give up the\nreference that hold in device_initialize(), so that it can\nbe freed in kobject_cleanup() when the refcount hit to 0.\n\nFault injection test can trigger this:\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff8e8340a7b4c0 (size 32):\n  comm \"modprobe\", pid 243, jiffies 4294678145 (age 48.845s)\n  hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n    69 69 6f 5f 73 79 73 66 73 5f 74 72 69 67 67 65  iio_sysfs_trigge\n    72 00 a7 40 83 8e ff ff 00 86 13 c4 f6 ee ff ff  r..@............\n  backtrace:\n    [<0000000074999de8>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1e9/0x360\n    [<00000000497fd30b>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x44/0x1a0\n    [<000000003636c520>] kstrdup+0x2d/0x60\n    [<0000000032f84da2>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x1e/0x90\n    [<0000000092efe493>] dev_set_name+0x4e/0x70","published":"2025-05-01T15:16:03.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T05:19:10.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-401"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00229,"percentile":0.13533,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.23%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0dd52e141afde089304de470148d311b05c14564","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c4e65285bdea23fd36d2ff376006ac64db6f42e","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a39382aa5411d64b25a71516c2c7480aab13bb7","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/656f670613662b6cc77aad14112db2803ad18fa8","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8dddf2699da296c84205582aaead6b43dd7e8c4b","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b47bb521961f027b4dcf8683337a7a1ba9e5ea1f","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/efa17e90e1711bdb084e3954fa44afb6647331c0","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f68c96821b61d2c71a35dbb8bf90c347fad624d9","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49793","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}