# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49468"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-02-26T02:13:12.713Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:00:28.362Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:49.724Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49468"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49468.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49468"
title: "thermal/core: Fix memory leak in __thermal_cooling_device_register()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nthermal/core: Fix memory leak in __thermal_cooling_device_register()\n\nI got memory leak as follows when doing fault injection test:\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff888010080000 (size 264312):\n  comm \"182\", pid 102533, jiffies 4296434960 (age 10.100s)\n  hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n    00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00  .....N..........\n    ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 40 7f 1f b9 ff ff ff ff  ........@.......\n  backtrace:\n    [\u003c0000000038b2f4fc\u003e] kmalloc_order_trace+0x1d/0x110 mm/slab_common.c:969\n    [\u003c00000000ebcb8da5\u003e] __kmalloc+0x373/0x420 include/linux/slab.h:510\n    [\u003c0000000084137f13\u003e] thermal_cooling_device_setup_sysfs+0x15d/0x2d0 include/linux/slab.h:586\n    [\u003c00000000352b8755\u003e] __thermal_cooling_device_register+0x332/0xa60 drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c:927\n    [\u003c00000000fb9f331b\u003e] devm_thermal_of_cooling_device_register+0x6b/0xf0 drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c:1041\n    [\u003c000000009b8012d2\u003e] max6650_probe.cold+0x557/0x6aa drivers/hwmon/max6650.c:211\n    [\u003c00000000da0b7e04\u003e] i2c_device_probe+0x472/0xac0 drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c:561\n\nIf device_register() fails, thermal_cooling_device_destroy_sysfs() need be called\nto free the memory allocated in thermal_cooling_device_setup_sysfs()."
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