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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-50561"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-22T13:23:20.802Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:21:48.314Z"
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-2022-50561"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50561.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50561"
title: "iio: fix memory leak in iio_device_register_eventset()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\niio: fix memory leak in iio_device_register_eventset()\n\nWhen iio_device_register_sysfs_group() returns failed,\niio_device_register_eventset() needs to free attrs array.\n\nOtherwise, kmemleak would scan & report memory leak as below:\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff88810a1cc3c0 (size 32):\n  comm \"100-i2c-vcnl302\", pid 728, jiffies 4295052307 (age 156.027s)\n  backtrace:\n    __kmalloc+0x46/0x1b0\n    iio_device_register_eventset at drivers/iio/industrialio-event.c:541\n    __iio_device_register at drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c:1959\n    __devm_iio_device_register at drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c:2040"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"32f171724e5cbecc80594fb6eced057cfdd6eb6f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dc6afd6070f3a5b086c8c5cfa6ded63ae44494da"},{"version":"32f171724e5cbecc80594fb6eced057cfdd6eb6f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5de3add7509c95685f1185683b817dd206c4b1f1"},{"version":"32f171724e5cbecc80594fb6eced057cfdd6eb6f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a154b1c139fbf6a49762159be81d425d41ceec87"},{"version":"32f171724e5cbecc80594fb6eced057cfdd6eb6f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"86fdd15e10e404e70ecb2a3bff24d70356d42b36"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.13"},{"version":"5.15.86","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.0.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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