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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-49784" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-05-01T14:09:17.695Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:06:42.965Z" 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-2022-49784" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49784.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49784" title: "perf/x86/amd/uncore: Fix memory leak for events array" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nperf/x86/amd/uncore: Fix memory leak for events array\n\nWhen a CPU comes online, the per-CPU NB and LLC uncore contexts are\nfreed but not the events array within the context structure. This\ncauses a memory leak as identified by the kmemleak detector.\n\n [...]\n unreferenced object 0xffff8c5944b8e320 (size 32):\n comm \"swapper/0\", pid 1, jiffies 4294670387 (age 151.072s)\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................\n 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................\n backtrace:\n [\u003c000000000759fb79\u003e] amd_uncore_cpu_up_prepare+0xaf/0x230\n [\u003c00000000ddc9e126\u003e] cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x2cf/0x470\n [\u003c0000000093e727d4\u003e] cpuhp_issue_call+0x14d/0x170\n [\u003c0000000045464d54\u003e] __cpuhp_setup_state_cpuslocked+0x11e/0x330\n [\u003c0000000069f67cbd\u003e] __cpuhp_setup_state+0x6b/0x110\n [\u003c0000000015365e0f\u003e] amd_uncore_init+0x260/0x321\n [\u003c00000000089152d2\u003e] do_one_initcall+0x3f/0x1f0\n [\u003c000000002d0bd18d\u003e] kernel_init_freeable+0x1ca/0x212\n [\u003c0000000030be8dde\u003e] kernel_init+0x11/0x120\n [\u003c0000000059709e59\u003e] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30\n unreferenced object 0xffff8c5944b8dd40 (size 64):\n comm \"swapper/0\", pid 1, jiffies 4294670387 (age 151.072s)\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................\n 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................\n backtrace:\n [\u003c00000000306efe8b\u003e] amd_uncore_cpu_up_prepare+0x183/0x230\n [\u003c00000000ddc9e126\u003e] cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x2cf/0x470\n [\u003c0000000093e727d4\u003e] cpuhp_issue_call+0x14d/0x170\n [\u003c0000000045464d54\u003e] __cpuhp_setup_state_cpuslocked+0x11e/0x330\n [\u003c0000000069f67cbd\u003e] __cpuhp_setup_state+0x6b/0x110\n [\u003c0000000015365e0f\u003e] amd_uncore_init+0x260/0x321\n [\u003c00000000089152d2\u003e] do_one_initcall+0x3f/0x1f0\n [\u003c000000002d0bd18d\u003e] kernel_init_freeable+0x1ca/0x212\n [\u003c0000000030be8dde\u003e] kernel_init+0x11/0x120\n [\u003c0000000059709e59\u003e] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30\n [...]\n\nFix the problem by freeing the events array before freeing the uncore\ncontext." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"39621c5808f5dda75d03dc4b2d4d2b13a5a1c34b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f75be9885d49e3717de962345c4572ddab52b178"},{"version":"39621c5808f5dda75d03dc4b2d4d2b13a5a1c34b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bdfe34597139cfcecd47a2eb97fea44d77157491"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.0"},{"version":"6.0.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1","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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