# 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-2022-49878"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-05-01T14:10:26.389Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:08:29.598Z"
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-2022-49878"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49878.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49878"
title: "bpf, verifier: Fix memory leak in array reallocation for stack state"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf, verifier: Fix memory leak in array reallocation for stack state\n\nIf an error (NULL) is returned by krealloc(), callers of realloc_array()\nwere setting their allocation pointers to NULL, but on error krealloc()\ndoes not touch the original allocation. This would result in a memory\nresource leak. Instead, free the old allocation on the error handling\npath.\n\nThe memory leak information is as follows as also reported by Zhengchao:\n\n  unreferenced object 0xffff888019801800 (size 256):\n  comm \"bpf_repo\", pid 6490, jiffies 4294959200 (age 17.170s)\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    [\u003c00000000b211474b\u003e] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x45/0xc0\n    [\u003c0000000086712a0b\u003e] krealloc+0x83/0xd0\n    [\u003c00000000139aab02\u003e] realloc_array+0x82/0xe2\n    [\u003c00000000b1ca41d1\u003e] grow_stack_state+0xfb/0x186\n    [\u003c00000000cd6f36d2\u003e] check_mem_access.cold+0x141/0x1341\n    [\u003c0000000081780455\u003e] do_check_common+0x5358/0xb350\n    [\u003c0000000015f6b091\u003e] bpf_check.cold+0xc3/0x29d\n    [\u003c000000002973c690\u003e] bpf_prog_load+0x13db/0x2240\n    [\u003c00000000028d1644\u003e] __sys_bpf+0x1605/0x4ce0\n    [\u003c00000000053f29bd\u003e] __x64_sys_bpf+0x75/0xb0\n    [\u003c0000000056fedaf5\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80\n    [\u003c000000002bd58261\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c69431aab67a912836e5831f03d99a819c14c9c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"06615967d4889b08b19ff3dda96e8b131282f73d"},{"version":"c69431aab67a912836e5831f03d99a819c14c9c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3e210891c4a4c2d858cd6f9f61d5809af251d4df"},{"version":"c69431aab67a912836e5831f03d99a819c14c9c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"42378a9ca55347102bbf86708776061d8fe3ece2"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.14"},{"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"}]

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