CVE-2022-50561: iio: fix memory leak in iio_device_register_eventset()

Deferred
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50561DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50561
Published 22-10-2025Last modified 11-05-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-50561 is a vulnerability in linux with no CVSS score yet. EPSS estimates a 0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 11.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Insufficient evidence

No CVSS vector published; no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
Not scored
010
No CVSS score recorded
EPSS score
0.21%
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 4 · Related 4
SUSE-SU-2025:4111-1SUSE-SU-2025:4139-1SUSE-SU-2025:4149-1SUSE-SU-2025:4320-1

Timeline

  1. 22-10-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: fix memory leak in iio_device_register_eventset() When iio_device_register_sysfs_group() returns failed, iio_device_register_eventset() needs to free attrs array. Otherwise, kmemleak would scan & report memory leak as below: unreferenced object 0xffff88810a1cc3c0 (size 32): comm "100-i2c-vcnl302", pid 728, jiffies 4295052307 (age 156.027s) backtrace: __kmalloc+0x46/0x1b0 iio_device_register_eventset at drivers/iio/industrialio-event.c:541 __iio_device_register at drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c:1959 __devm_iio_device_register at drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c:2040

CVSS metrics

Risk metrics not yet published.

EPSS trend

Probability

0.21%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

12%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.21% 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

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu102 products
  • linux< 5.15.0-69.76
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 5.15.0-1033.37
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.1.4-1
Linux1 product
  • linux≥ 32f171724e5cbecc80594fb6eced057cfdd6eb6f, < dc6afd6070f3a5b086c8c5cfa6ded63ae44494da | ≥ 32f171724e5cbecc80594fb6eced057cfdd6eb6f, < 5de3add7509c95685f1185683b817dd206c4b1f1 | ≥ 32f171724e5cbecc80594fb6eced057cfdd6eb6f, < a154b1c139fbf6a49762159be81d425d41ceec87 | ≥ 32f171724e5cbecc80594fb6eced057cfdd6eb6f, < 86fdd15e10e404e70ecb2a3bff24d70356d42b36 | 5.13

3 vendors · 104 products

References

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