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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-49648" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-02-26T02:23:52.035Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:22:38.887Z" 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-2022-49648" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49648.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49648" title: "tracing/histograms: Fix memory leak problem" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntracing/histograms: Fix memory leak problem\n\nThis reverts commit 46bbe5c671e06f070428b9be142cc4ee5cedebac.\n\nAs commit 46bbe5c671e0 (\"tracing: fix double free\") said, the\n\"double free\" problem reported by clang static analyzer is:\n \u003e In parse_var_defs() if there is a problem allocating\n \u003e var_defs.expr, the earlier var_defs.name is freed.\n \u003e This free is duplicated by free_var_defs() which frees\n \u003e the rest of the list.\n\nHowever, if there is a problem allocating N-th var_defs.expr:\n + in parse_var_defs(), the freed 'earlier var_defs.name' is\n actually the N-th var_defs.name;\n + then in free_var_defs(), the names from 0th to (N-1)-th are freed;\n\n IF ALLOCATING PROBLEM HAPPENED HERE!!! -+\n \\\n |\n 0th 1th (N-1)-th N-th V\n +-------------+-------------+-----+-------------+-----------\nvar_defs: | name | expr | name | expr | ... | name | expr | name | ///\n +-------------+-------------+-----+-------------+-----------\n\nThese two frees don't act on same name, so there was no \"double free\"\nproblem before. Conversely, after that commit, we get a \"memory leak\"\nproblem because the above \"N-th var_defs.name\" is not freed.\n\nIf enable CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK and inject a fault at where the N-th\nvar_defs.expr allocated, then execute on shell like:\n $ echo 'hist:key=call_site:val=$v1,$v2:v1=bytes_req,v2=bytes_alloc' \u003e \\\n/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/trigger\n\nThen kmemleak reports:\n unreferenced object 0xffff8fb100ef3518 (size 8):\n comm \"bash\", pid 196, jiffies 4295681690 (age 28.538s)\n hex dump (first 8 bytes):\n 76 31 00 00 b1 8f ff ff v1......\n backtrace:\n [\u003c0000000038fe4895\u003e] kstrdup+0x2d/0x60\n [\u003c00000000c99c049a\u003e] event_hist_trigger_parse+0x206f/0x20e0\n [\u003c00000000ae70d2cc\u003e] trigger_process_regex+0xc0/0x110\n [\u003c0000000066737a4c\u003e] event_trigger_write+0x75/0xd0\n [\u003c000000007341e40c\u003e] vfs_write+0xbb/0x2a0\n [\u003c0000000087fde4c2\u003e] ksys_write+0x59/0xd0\n [\u003c00000000581e9cdf\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x80\n [\u003c00000000cf3b065c\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"240dd5118a9e0454f280ffeae63f22bd14735733","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"eb622d5580b9e2ff694f62da6410618bd73853cb"},{"version":"e92c490f104993cea35e5f5d5108ac12df1850ac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ecc6dec12c33aa92c086cd702af9f544ddaf3c75"},{"version":"46bbe5c671e06f070428b9be142cc4ee5cedebac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"78a1400c42ee11197eb1f0f85ba51df9a4fdfff0"},{"version":"46bbe5c671e06f070428b9be142cc4ee5cedebac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"22eeff55679d9e7c0f768c79bfbd83e2f8142d89"},{"version":"46bbe5c671e06f070428b9be142cc4ee5cedebac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4d453eb5e1eec89971aa5b3262857ee26cfdffd3"},{"version":"46bbe5c671e06f070428b9be142cc4ee5cedebac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7edc3945bdce9c39198a10d6129377a5c53559c2"},{"version":"e3a23511638a3dcf0275c1e71a46d1ca2e2e6788","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"4.19.149","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.19.253"},{"version":"5.4.69","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.4.207"},{"version":"5.8.13","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.9"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.9"},{"version":"4.19.253","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.207","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.132","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.56","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.18.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.18.*"},{"version":"5.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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