5.5

CVE-2022-49891: linux

CVSS: 5.5v3.1MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49891DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49891
Published 01-05-2025Last modified 11-05-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-49891 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 9.5% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
22/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.20%
0%100%
Low · +0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 4 · Related 4
SUSE-SU-2025:01918-1SUSE-SU-2025:01966-1SUSE-SU-2025:02173-1SUSE-SU-2025:02262-1

Timeline

  1. 01-05-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tracing: kprobe: Fix memory leak in test_gen_kprobe/kretprobe_cmd() test_gen_kprobe_cmd() only free buf in fail path, hence buf will leak when there is no failure. Move kfree(buf) from fail path to common path to prevent the memleak. The same reason and solution in test_gen_kretprobe_cmd(). unreferenced object 0xffff888143b14000 (size 2048): comm "insmod", pid 52490, jiffies 4301890980 (age 40.553s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 70 3a 6b 70 72 6f 62 65 73 2f 67 65 6e 5f 6b 70 p:kprobes/gen_kp 72 6f 62 65 5f 74 65 73 74 20 64 6f 5f 73 79 73 robe_test do_sys backtrace: [<000000006d7b836b>] kmalloc_trace+0x27/0xa0 [<0000000009528b5b>] 0xffffffffa059006f [<000000008408b580>] do_one_initcall+0x87/0x2a0 [<00000000c4980a7e>] do_init_module+0xdf/0x320 [<00000000d775aad0>] load_module+0x3006/0x3390 [<00000000e9a74b80>] __do_sys_finit_module+0x113/0x1b0 [<000000003726480d>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 [<000000003441e93b>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 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

+0.01 pp

From 0.19% on 22-09-2026

22-09-202622-10-2026
EPSS score
0.20%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Ubuntu95 products
  • linux< 5.15.0-60.66
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 5.15.0-1030.34
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ 64836248dda20c8e7427b493f7e06d9bf8f58850, < bef08acbe560a926b4cee9cc46404cc98ae5703b | ≥ 64836248dda20c8e7427b493f7e06d9bf8f58850, < d1b6a8e3414aeaa0985139180c145d2d0fbd2a49 | ≥ 64836248dda20c8e7427b493f7e06d9bf8f58850, < 71aeb8d01a8c7ab5cf7da3f81b35206f56ce6bca | ≥ 64836248dda20c8e7427b493f7e06d9bf8f58850, < 66f0919c953ef7b55e5ab94389a013da2ce80a2c | 5.6
  • linux_kernel≥ 5.6, < 5.10.154 | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.78 | ≥ 5.16, < 6.0.8 | 6.1:rc1 | 6.1:rc2 | 6.1:rc3
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.0.8-1

3 vendors · 98 products

References

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