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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-49793" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-05-01T14:09:24.442Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:06:53.685Z" 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-2022-49793" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49793.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49793" title: "iio: trigger: sysfs: fix possible memory leak in iio_sysfs_trig_init()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\niio: trigger: sysfs: fix possible memory leak in iio_sysfs_trig_init()\n\ndev_set_name() allocates memory for name, it need be freed\nwhen device_add() fails, call put_device() to give up the\nreference that hold in device_initialize(), so that it can\nbe freed in kobject_cleanup() when the refcount hit to 0.\n\nFault injection test can trigger this:\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff8e8340a7b4c0 (size 32):\n comm \"modprobe\", pid 243, jiffies 4294678145 (age 48.845s)\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 69 69 6f 5f 73 79 73 66 73 5f 74 72 69 67 67 65 iio_sysfs_trigge\n 72 00 a7 40 83 8e ff ff 00 86 13 c4 f6 ee ff ff r..@............\n backtrace:\n [\u003c0000000074999de8\u003e] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1e9/0x360\n [\u003c00000000497fd30b\u003e] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x44/0x1a0\n [\u003c000000003636c520\u003e] kstrdup+0x2d/0x60\n [\u003c0000000032f84da2\u003e] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x1e/0x90\n [\u003c0000000092efe493\u003e] dev_set_name+0x4e/0x70" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1f785681a87068f123d3e23da13b2c55ab4f93ac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f68c96821b61d2c71a35dbb8bf90c347fad624d9"},{"version":"1f785681a87068f123d3e23da13b2c55ab4f93ac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5a39382aa5411d64b25a71516c2c7480aab13bb7"},{"version":"1f785681a87068f123d3e23da13b2c55ab4f93ac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b47bb521961f027b4dcf8683337a7a1ba9e5ea1f"},{"version":"1f785681a87068f123d3e23da13b2c55ab4f93ac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0dd52e141afde089304de470148d311b05c14564"},{"version":"1f785681a87068f123d3e23da13b2c55ab4f93ac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8dddf2699da296c84205582aaead6b43dd7e8c4b"},{"version":"1f785681a87068f123d3e23da13b2c55ab4f93ac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"656f670613662b6cc77aad14112db2803ad18fa8"},{"version":"1f785681a87068f123d3e23da13b2c55ab4f93ac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2c4e65285bdea23fd36d2ff376006ac64db6f42e"},{"version":"1f785681a87068f123d3e23da13b2c55ab4f93ac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"efa17e90e1711bdb084e3954fa44afb6647331c0"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.0"},{"version":"4.9.334","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.9.*"},{"version":"4.14.300","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.267","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.225","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.156","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.80","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"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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