CVE-2022-50561
Published: Oct 22, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
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
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 32f171724e5cbecc80594fb6eced057cfdd6eb6f - < dc6afd6070f3a5b086c8c5cfa6ded63ae44494daaffected 32f171724e5cbecc80594fb6eced057cfdd6eb6f - < 5de3add7509c95685f1185683b817dd206c4b1f1affected 32f171724e5cbecc80594fb6eced057cfdd6eb6f - < a154b1c139fbf6a49762159be81d425d41ceec87affected 32f171724e5cbecc80594fb6eced057cfdd6eb6f - < 86fdd15e10e404e70ecb2a3bff24d70356d42b36 |
Linux | Linux | affected 5.13unaffected 0 - < 5.13unaffected 5.15.86 - <= 5.15.*unaffected 6.0.16 - <= 6.0.*unaffected 6.1.2 - <= 6.1.*+1 more versions |
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