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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-49853" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-05-01T14:10:07.726Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:08:01.634Z" 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-2022-49853" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49853.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49853" title: "net: macvlan: fix memory leaks of macvlan_common_newlink" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: macvlan: fix memory leaks of macvlan_common_newlink\n\nkmemleak reports memory leaks in macvlan_common_newlink, as follows:\n\n ip link add link eth0 name .. type macvlan mode source macaddr add\n \u003cMAC-ADDR\u003e\n\nkmemleak reports:\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff8880109bb140 (size 64):\n comm \"ip\", pid 284, jiffies 4294986150 (age 430.108s)\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 b8 aa 5a 12 80 88 ff ff ..........Z.....\n 80 1b fa 0d 80 88 ff ff 1e ff ac af c7 c1 6b 6b ..............kk\n backtrace:\n [\u003cffffffff813e06a7\u003e] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x1c7/0x300\n [\u003cffffffff81b66025\u003e] macvlan_hash_add_source+0x45/0xc0\n [\u003cffffffff81b66a67\u003e] macvlan_changelink_sources+0xd7/0x170\n [\u003cffffffff81b6775c\u003e] macvlan_common_newlink+0x38c/0x5a0\n [\u003cffffffff81b6797e\u003e] macvlan_newlink+0xe/0x20\n [\u003cffffffff81d97f8f\u003e] __rtnl_newlink+0x7af/0xa50\n [\u003cffffffff81d98278\u003e] rtnl_newlink+0x48/0x70\n ...\n\nIn the scenario where the macvlan mode is configured as 'source',\nmacvlan_changelink_sources() will be execured to reconfigure list of\nremote source mac addresses, at the same time, if register_netdevice()\nreturn an error, the resource generated by macvlan_changelink_sources()\nis not cleaned up.\n\nUsing this patch, in the case of an error, it will execute\nmacvlan_flush_sources() to ensure that the resource is cleaned up." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"aa5fd0fb77486b8a6764ead8627baa14790e4280","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9f288e338be206713d79b29144c27fca4503c39b"},{"version":"aa5fd0fb77486b8a6764ead8627baa14790e4280","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"21d3a8b6a1e39e7529ce9de07316ee13a63f305b"},{"version":"aa5fd0fb77486b8a6764ead8627baa14790e4280","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a81b44d1df1f07f00c0dcc0a0b3d2fa24a46289e"},{"version":"aa5fd0fb77486b8a6764ead8627baa14790e4280","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"685e73e3f7a9fb75cbf049a9d0b7c45cc6b57b2e"},{"version":"aa5fd0fb77486b8a6764ead8627baa14790e4280","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"956e0216a19994443c90ba2ea6b0b284c9c4f9cb"},{"version":"aa5fd0fb77486b8a6764ead8627baa14790e4280","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a8d67367ab33604326cc37ab44fd1801bf5691ba"},{"version":"aa5fd0fb77486b8a6764ead8627baa14790e4280","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9ea003c4671b2fc455320ecf6d4a43b0a3c1878a"},{"version":"aa5fd0fb77486b8a6764ead8627baa14790e4280","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"23569b5652ee8e8e55a12f7835f59af6f3cefc30"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.9"},{"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":"5.10.155","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.79","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.0.9","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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