vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2022-49793): linux vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 1, 2025
Added
May 6, 2025
Modified
Jun 10, 2025

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:
[] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1e9/0x360
[] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x44/0x1a0
[] kstrdup+0x2d/0x60
[] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x1e/0x90
[] dev_set_name+0x4e/0x70

Solution(s)

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