5.5

CVE-2022-49803: netdevsim: Fix memory leak of nsim_dev->fa_cookie

Modified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49803DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49803
Published 01-05-2025Last modified 04-07-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-49803 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 10.3% 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 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.20%
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 13 · Related 13
USN-8575-1USN-8575-2USN-8575-3USN-8576-1USN-8576-2USN-8597-1

Timeline

  1. 01-05-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 04-07-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netdevsim: Fix memory leak of nsim_dev->fa_cookie kmemleak reports this issue: unreferenced object 0xffff8881bac872d0 (size 8): comm "sh", pid 58603, jiffies 4481524462 (age 68.065s) hex dump (first 8 bytes): 04 00 00 00 de ad be ef ........ backtrace: [<00000000c80b8577>] __kmalloc+0x49/0x150 [<000000005292b8c6>] nsim_dev_trap_fa_cookie_write+0xc1/0x210 [netdevsim] [<0000000093d78e77>] full_proxy_write+0xf3/0x180 [<000000005a662c16>] vfs_write+0x1c5/0xaf0 [<000000007aabf84a>] ksys_write+0xed/0x1c0 [<000000005f1d2e47>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 [<000000006001c6ec>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd The issue occurs in the following scenarios: nsim_dev_trap_fa_cookie_write() kmalloc() fa_cookie nsim_dev->fa_cookie = fa_cookie .. nsim_drv_remove() The fa_cookie allocked in nsim_dev_trap_fa_cookie_write() is not freed. To fix, add kfree(nsim_dev->fa_cookie) to nsim_drv_remove().

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.20%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

10%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.20% 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< 5.15.0-186.196
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 5.15.0-1112.119
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ d3cbb907ae57fe5da314b51d949b617b538bdeae, < 7d79725a7073d86b9185f87718e22f3d65115801 | ≥ d3cbb907ae57fe5da314b51d949b617b538bdeae, < 6d463ddd0107d4188229d996dcdd45c99bad8af7 | ≥ d3cbb907ae57fe5da314b51d949b617b538bdeae, < 207edad5717e0a5709ce8467f0eff41c607835c9 | ≥ d3cbb907ae57fe5da314b51d949b617b538bdeae, < 064bc7312bd09a48798418663090be0c776183db | 5.7
  • linux_kernel≥ 5.7, < 6.0.10 | 6.1:rc1 | 6.1:rc2 | 6.1:rc3 | 6.1:rc4 | 6.1:rc5
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.0.10-1

3 vendors · 108 products

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