CVE-2022-49801

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 36/100
Published: 2025-05-01 Modified: 2026-11-05 First seen: 2026-11-05 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local
AC: Low
PR: Low
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: None
I: None
A: High

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tracing: Fix memory leak in tracing_read_pipe() kmemleak reports this issue: unreferenced object 0xffff888105a18900 (size 128): comm "test_progs", pid 18933, jiffies 4336275356 (age 22801.766s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 25 73 00 90 81 88 ff ff 26 05 00 00 42 01 58 04 %s......&...B.X. 03 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<00000000560143a1>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x4a/0x140 [<000000006af00822>] krealloc+0x8d/0xf0 [<00000000c309be6a>] trace_iter_expand_format+0x99/0x150 [<000000005a53bdb6>] trace_check_vprintf+0x1e0/0x11d0 [<0000000065629d9d>] trace_event_printf+0xb6/0xf0 [<000000009a690dc7>] trace_raw_output_bpf_trace_printk+0x89/0xc0 [<00000000d22db172>] print_trace_line+0x73c/0x1480 [<00000000cdba76ba>] tracing_read_pipe+0x45c/0x9f0 [<0000000015b58459>] vfs_read+0x17b/0x7c0 [<000000004aeee8ed>] ksys_read+0xed/0x1c0 [<0000000063d3d898>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 [<00000000a06dda7f>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd iter->fmt alloced in tracing_read_pipe() -> .. ->trace_iter_expand_format(), but not freed, to fix, add free in tracing_release_pipe()

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (12)

VendorProductVersion
Linux Linux efbbdaa22bb78761bff8dfdde027ad04bedd47ce < 2c21ee020ce43d744ecd7f3e9bddfcaafef270ce
Linux Linux efbbdaa22bb78761bff8dfdde027ad04bedd47ce < a7d3f8f33c113478737bc61bb32ec5f9a987da7d
Linux Linux efbbdaa22bb78761bff8dfdde027ad04bedd47ce < 649e72070cbbb8600eb823833e4748f5a0815116
Linux Linux 840ce9cfc86f89c335625ec297acc0375f82e19b
Linux Linux 5.10.190 < 5.11
Linux Linux 5.12
linux linux_kernel 5.10.190 – 5.11
linux linux_kernel 6.1
linux linux_kernel 6.1
linux linux_kernel 6.1
linux linux_kernel 6.1
linux linux_kernel 6.1

Bug Bounty Relevance

36 / 100
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

5.5 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.20%
Raw Score 0.001990
Percentile 9.8%
Date 2026-11-05

Intelligence Sources

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