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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-49926" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-05-01T14:11:04.691Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:09:23.124Z" 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-2022-49926" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49926.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49926" title: "net: dsa: Fix possible memory leaks in dsa_loop_init()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: dsa: Fix possible memory leaks in dsa_loop_init()\n\nkmemleak reported memory leaks in dsa_loop_init():\n\nkmemleak: 12 new suspected memory leaks\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff8880138ce000 (size 2048):\n comm \"modprobe\", pid 390, jiffies 4295040478 (age 238.976s)\n backtrace:\n [\u003c000000006a94f1d5\u003e] kmalloc_trace+0x26/0x60\n [\u003c00000000a9c44622\u003e] phy_device_create+0x5d/0x970\n [\u003c00000000d0ee2afc\u003e] get_phy_device+0xf3/0x2b0\n [\u003c00000000dca0c71f\u003e] __fixed_phy_register.part.0+0x92/0x4e0\n [\u003c000000008a834798\u003e] fixed_phy_register+0x84/0xb0\n [\u003c0000000055223fcb\u003e] dsa_loop_init+0xa9/0x116 [dsa_loop]\n ...\n\nThere are two reasons for memleak in dsa_loop_init().\n\nFirst, fixed_phy_register() create and register phy_device:\n\nfixed_phy_register()\n get_phy_device()\n phy_device_create() # freed by phy_device_free()\n phy_device_register() # freed by phy_device_remove()\n\nBut fixed_phy_unregister() only calls phy_device_remove().\nSo the memory allocated in phy_device_create() is leaked.\n\nSecond, when mdio_driver_register() fail in dsa_loop_init(),\nit just returns and there is no cleanup for phydevs.\n\nFix the problems by catching the error of mdio_driver_register()\nin dsa_loop_init(), then calling both fixed_phy_unregister() and\nphy_device_free() to release phydevs.\nAlso add a function for phydevs cleanup to avoid duplacate." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"98cd1552ea27e512c7e99e2aa76042a26e4fb25c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"935b4beb724946a37cebf97191592d4879d3a3a3"},{"version":"98cd1552ea27e512c7e99e2aa76042a26e4fb25c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d593e1ede655b74c42e4e4fe285ea64aee96fb5c"},{"version":"98cd1552ea27e512c7e99e2aa76042a26e4fb25c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bbc5d7b46a729bfcbb5544f6612b7a67dd4f4d6f"},{"version":"98cd1552ea27e512c7e99e2aa76042a26e4fb25c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"37a098fc9b42bd7fce66764866aa514639667b6e"},{"version":"98cd1552ea27e512c7e99e2aa76042a26e4fb25c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9f555b1584fc2d5d16ee3c4d9438e93ac7c502c7"},{"version":"98cd1552ea27e512c7e99e2aa76042a26e4fb25c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4d2024b138d9f7b02ae13ee997fd3a71e9e46254"},{"version":"98cd1552ea27e512c7e99e2aa76042a26e4fb25c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"633efc8b3dc96f56f5a57f2a49764853a2fa3f50"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.12"},{"version":"4.14.299","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.265","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.224","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.154","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.78","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.0.8","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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