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CVE-2022-49801

tracing: Fix memory leak in tracing_read_pipe()

Medium5.5EPSS 0.20%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
Linux

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tracing: Fix memory leak in tracing_read_pipe() kmemleak reports this issue: unreferenced object 0xffff888105a18900 (size 128): comm "test_progs", pid 18933, jiffies 4336275356 (age 22801.766s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 25 73 00 90 81 88 ff ff 26 05 00 00 42 01 58 04 %s......&...B.X. 03 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<00000000560143a1>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x4a/0x140 [<000000006af00822>] krealloc+0x8d/0xf0 [<00000000c309be6a>] trace_iter_expand_format+0x99/0x150 [<000000005a53bdb6>] trace_check_vprintf+0x1e0/0x11d0 [<0000000065629d9d>] trace_event_printf+0xb6/0xf0 [<000000009a690dc7>] trace_raw_output_bpf_trace_printk+0x89/0xc0 [<00000000d22db172>] print_trace_line+0x73c/0x1480 [<00000000cdba76ba>] tracing_read_pipe+0x45c/0x9f0 [<0000000015b58459>] vfs_read+0x17b/0x7c0 [<000000004aeee8ed>] ksys_read+0xed/0x1c0 [<0000000063d3d898>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 [<00000000a06dda7f>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd iter->fmt alloced in tracing_read_pipe() -> .. ->trace_iter_expand_format(), but not freed, to fix, add free in tracing_release_pipe()

Timeline

  1. ID reserved

    By Linux

  2. Published

  3. · 18 months later

    Record updated

Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2022-49801, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Analyzed3.1Medium5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
0.20% · top 90% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
CISA SSVC
Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.

Weakness

Affected products

  • Linux · Linux

    • affected efbbdaa22bb78761bff8dfdde027ad04bedd47ce – < 2c21ee020ce43d744ecd7f3e9bddfcaafef270ce
    • affected efbbdaa22bb78761bff8dfdde027ad04bedd47ce – < a7d3f8f33c113478737bc61bb32ec5f9a987da7d
    • affected efbbdaa22bb78761bff8dfdde027ad04bedd47ce – < 649e72070cbbb8600eb823833e4748f5a0815116
    • affected 840ce9cfc86f89c335625ec297acc0375f82e19b
    • affected 5.10.190 – < 5.11

  • Linux · Linux

    • affected 5.12
    • unaffected < 5.12
    • unaffected 5.15.80 – ≤ 5.15.*
    • unaffected 6.0.10 – ≤ 6.0.*
    • unaffected 6.1 – ≤ *

References (3)

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