CVE-2022-49803

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: 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().

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (11)

VendorProductVersion
Linux Linux d3cbb907ae57fe5da314b51d949b617b538bdeae < 7d79725a7073d86b9185f87718e22f3d65115801
Linux Linux d3cbb907ae57fe5da314b51d949b617b538bdeae < 6d463ddd0107d4188229d996dcdd45c99bad8af7
Linux Linux d3cbb907ae57fe5da314b51d949b617b538bdeae < 207edad5717e0a5709ce8467f0eff41c607835c9
Linux Linux d3cbb907ae57fe5da314b51d949b617b538bdeae < 064bc7312bd09a48798418663090be0c776183db
Linux Linux 5.7
linux linux_kernel 5.7 – 6.0.10
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 0.002030
Percentile 10.4%
Date 2026-11-05

Intelligence Sources

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