CVE-2022-49891

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49891
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49891.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-49891
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-05-01T14:10:35.115Z
Modified
2026-04-03T13:14:18.725943437Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
tracing: kprobe: Fix memory leak in test_gen_kprobe/kretprobe_cmd()
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tracing: kprobe: Fix memory leak in testgenkprobe/kretprobe_cmd()

testgenkprobecmd() only free buf in fail path, hence buf will leak when there is no failure. Move kfree(buf) from fail path to common path to prevent the memleak. The same reason and solution in testgenkretprobecmd().

unreferenced object 0xffff888143b14000 (size 2048): comm "insmod", pid 52490, jiffies 4301890980 (age 40.553s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 70 3a 6b 70 72 6f 62 65 73 2f 67 65 6e 5f 6b 70 p:kprobes/genkp 72 6f 62 65 5f 74 65 73 74 20 64 6f 5f 73 79 73 robetest dosys backtrace: [<000000006d7b836b>] kmalloctrace+0x27/0xa0 [<0000000009528b5b>] 0xffffffffa059006f [<000000008408b580>] dooneinitcall+0x87/0x2a0 [<00000000c4980a7e>] doinitmodule+0xdf/0x320 [<00000000d775aad0>] load_module+0x3006/0x3390 [<00000000e9a74b80>] _dosysfinitmodule+0x113/0x1b0 [<000000003726480d>] dosyscall64+0x35/0x80 [<000000003441e93b>] entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x46/0xb0

Database specific
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/49xxx/CVE-2022-49891.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
64836248dda20c8e7427b493f7e06d9bf8f58850
Fixed
bef08acbe560a926b4cee9cc46404cc98ae5703b
Fixed
d1b6a8e3414aeaa0985139180c145d2d0fbd2a49
Fixed
71aeb8d01a8c7ab5cf7da3f81b35206f56ce6bca
Fixed
66f0919c953ef7b55e5ab94389a013da2ce80a2c

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49891.json"