CVE-2022-49853: net: macvlan: fix memory leaks of macvlan_common_newlink
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2022-49853 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 13% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 5.5, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 8 · Related 5Timeline
- 01-05-2025PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 11-05-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: macvlan: fix memory leaks of macvlan_common_newlink kmemleak reports memory leaks in macvlan_common_newlink, as follows: ip link add link eth0 name .. type macvlan mode source macaddr add <MAC-ADDR> kmemleak reports: unreferenced object 0xffff8880109bb140 (size 64): comm "ip", pid 284, jiffies 4294986150 (age 430.108s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 b8 aa 5a 12 80 88 ff ff ..........Z..... 80 1b fa 0d 80 88 ff ff 1e ff ac af c7 c1 6b 6b ..............kk backtrace: [<ffffffff813e06a7>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x1c7/0x300 [<ffffffff81b66025>] macvlan_hash_add_source+0x45/0xc0 [<ffffffff81b66a67>] macvlan_changelink_sources+0xd7/0x170 [<ffffffff81b6775c>] macvlan_common_newlink+0x38c/0x5a0 [<ffffffff81b6797e>] macvlan_newlink+0xe/0x20 [<ffffffff81d97f8f>] __rtnl_newlink+0x7af/0xa50 [<ffffffff81d98278>] rtnl_newlink+0x48/0x70 ... In the scenario where the macvlan mode is configured as 'source', macvlan_changelink_sources() will be execured to reconfigure list of remote source mac addresses, at the same time, if register_netdevice() return an error, the resource generated by macvlan_changelink_sources() is not cleaned up. Using this patch, in the case of an error, it will execute macvlan_flush_sources() to ensure that the resource is cleaned up.
CVSS metrics
5 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated5.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated5.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVDNIST5.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.22%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
13%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 0.22% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Ubuntu112 products
- linux< 4.15.0-206.217 | < 5.4.0-144.161 | < 5.15.0-67.74
- linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-aws< 4.15.0-1151.164 | < 5.4.0-1097.105 | < 5.15.0-1031.35
- linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
- linux≥ aa5fd0fb77486b8a6764ead8627baa14790e4280, < 9f288e338be206713d79b29144c27fca4503c39b | ≥ aa5fd0fb77486b8a6764ead8627baa14790e4280, < 21d3a8b6a1e39e7529ce9de07316ee13a63f305b | ≥ aa5fd0fb77486b8a6764ead8627baa14790e4280, < a81b44d1df1f07f00c0dcc0a0b3d2fa24a46289e | ≥ aa5fd0fb77486b8a6764ead8627baa14790e4280, < 685e73e3f7a9fb75cbf049a9d0b7c45cc6b57b2e | ≥ aa5fd0fb77486b8a6764ead8627baa14790e4280, < 956e0216a19994443c90ba2ea6b0b284c9c4f9cb | ≥ aa5fd0fb77486b8a6764ead8627baa14790e4280, < a8d67367ab33604326cc37ab44fd1801bf5691ba | ≥ aa5fd0fb77486b8a6764ead8627baa14790e4280, < 9ea003c4671b2fc455320ecf6d4a43b0a3c1878a | ≥ aa5fd0fb77486b8a6764ead8627baa14790e4280, < 23569b5652ee8e8e55a12f7835f59af6f3cefc30 | 4.9
- linux_kernel≥ 4.9, < 4.9.334 | ≥ 4.10, < 4.14.300 | ≥ 4.15, < 4.19.267 | ≥ 4.20, < 5.4.225 | ≥ 5.5, < 5.10.155 | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.79 | ≥ 5.16, < 6.0.9 | 6.1:rc1 | 6.1:rc2 | 6.1:rc3 | 6.1:rc4
Debian1 product
- linux< 6.0.10-1
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