5.5

CVE-2022-49224: power: supply: ab8500: Fix memory leak in ab8500_fg_sysfs_init

Modified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49224DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49224
Published 26-02-2025Last modified 11-05-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-49224 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 19% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 5.5, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.27%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 6 · Related 6
SUSE-SU-2025:1027-1SUSE-SU-2025:1176-1SUSE-SU-2025:1183-1SUSE-SU-2025:1194-1SUSE-SU-2025:1241-1SUSE-SU-2025:1263-1

Timeline

  1. 26-02-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: power: supply: ab8500: Fix memory leak in ab8500_fg_sysfs_init kobject_init_and_add() takes reference even when it fails. According to the doc of kobject_init_and_add()： If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to properly clean up the memory associated with the object. Fix memory leak by calling kobject_put().

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.27%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

19%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.27% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

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CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu105 products
  • linux< 4.15.0-189.200 | < 5.4.0-117.132 | < 5.15.0-37.39
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 4.15.0-1137.148 | < 5.4.0-1078.84 | < 5.15.0-1011.14
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ 8c0984e5a75337df513047ec92a6c09d78e3e5cd, < 31cdf7897dba1f096b74f69d840f0575b8cdb9ae | ≥ 8c0984e5a75337df513047ec92a6c09d78e3e5cd, < 19aa3c98ed7b2616e105946cec804f897837ab84 | ≥ 8c0984e5a75337df513047ec92a6c09d78e3e5cd, < db3a61ef8e6aef3b888baa6a85926c2230c2cc56 | ≥ 8c0984e5a75337df513047ec92a6c09d78e3e5cd, < 41ed61364285ff38bbbe9ca8a45c8372ba72921d | ≥ 8c0984e5a75337df513047ec92a6c09d78e3e5cd, < 879356a6a05559582b0a7895d86d2d4359745c08 | ≥ 8c0984e5a75337df513047ec92a6c09d78e3e5cd, < ffb8e92b4cef92bd25563cf3d8b4489eb22bc61f | ≥ 8c0984e5a75337df513047ec92a6c09d78e3e5cd, < 261041097ab3470f1120b7733cbf472712304d1e | ≥ 8c0984e5a75337df513047ec92a6c09d78e3e5cd, < c32f6b6196b6efc1c68990dfeaac36fb8eb3b8e1 | ≥ 8c0984e5a75337df513047ec92a6c09d78e3e5cd, < 6a4760463dbc6b603690938c468839985189ce0a | 4.9
  • linux_kernel≥ 4.9, < 4.9.311 | ≥ 4.10, < 4.14.276 | ≥ 4.15, < 4.19.238 | ≥ 4.20, < 5.4.189 | ≥ 5.5, < 5.10.110 | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.33 | ≥ 5.16, < 5.16.19 | ≥ 5.17, < 5.17.2
Debian1 product
  • linux< 5.17.3-1

3 vendors · 108 products

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