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CVE-2022-49793 Detail

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


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0dd52e141afde089304de470148d311b05c14564 kernel.org Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c4e65285bdea23fd36d2ff376006ac64db6f42e kernel.org Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a39382aa5411d64b25a71516c2c7480aab13bb7 kernel.org Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/656f670613662b6cc77aad14112db2803ad18fa8 kernel.org Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8dddf2699da296c84205582aaead6b43dd7e8c4b kernel.org Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b47bb521961f027b4dcf8683337a7a1ba9e5ea1f kernel.org Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/efa17e90e1711bdb084e3954fa44afb6647331c0 kernel.org Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f68c96821b61d2c71a35dbb8bf90c347fad624d9 kernel.org Patch 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2022-49793
NVD Published Date:
05/01/2025
NVD Last Modified:
11/06/2025
Source:
kernel.org