CVE-2022-49981

Medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: hidraw: fix memory leak in hidraw_release() Free the buffered reports before deleting the list entry. BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff88810e72f180 (size 32): comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 4294945143 (age 16.080s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 64 f3 c6 6a d1 88 07 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 d..j............ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<ffffffff814ac6c3>] kmemdup+0x23/0x50 mm/util.c:128 [<ffffffff8357c1d2>] kmemdup include/linux/fortify-string.h:440 [inline] [<ffffffff8357c1d2>] hidraw_report_event+0xa2/0x150 drivers/hid/hidraw.c:521 [<ffffffff8356ddad>] hid_report_raw_event+0x27d/0x740 drivers/hid/hid-core.c:1992 [<ffffffff8356e41e>] hid_input_report+0x1ae/0x270 drivers/hid/hid-core.c:2065 [<ffffffff835f0d3f>] hid_irq_in+0x1ff/0x250 drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c:284 [<ffffffff82d3c7f9>] __usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0xf9/0x230 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1670 [<ffffffff82d3cc26>] usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x1b6/0x1d0 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1747 [<ffffffff82ef1e14>] dummy_timer+0x8e4/0x14c0 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c:1988 [<ffffffff812f50a8>] call_timer_fn+0x38/0x200 kernel/time/timer.c:1474 [<ffffffff812f5586>] expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1519 [inline] [<ffffffff812f5586>] __run_timers.part.0+0x316/0x430 kernel/time/timer.c:1790 [<ffffffff812f56e4>] __run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1768 [inline] [<ffffffff812f56e4>] run_timer_softirq+0x44/0x90 kernel/time/timer.c:1803 [<ffffffff848000e6>] __do_softirq+0xe6/0x2ea kernel/softirq.c:571 [<ffffffff81246db0>] invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:445 [inline] [<ffffffff81246db0>] __irq_exit_rcu kernel/softirq.c:650 [inline] [<ffffffff81246db0>] irq_exit_rcu+0xc0/0x110 kernel/softirq.c:662 [<ffffffff84574f02>] sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa2/0xd0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1106 [<ffffffff84600c8b>] asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1b/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:649 [<ffffffff8458a070>] native_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:51 [inline] [<ffffffff8458a070>] arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:89 [inline] [<ffffffff8458a070>] acpi_safe_halt drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c:111 [inline] [<ffffffff8458a070>] acpi_idle_do_entry+0xc0/0xd0 drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c:554

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.5
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux Kernel
PublishedJun 18, 2025
First seenJun 18, 2025

How to fix

Update
  • linux linux_kernel4.9.327, 4.14.292, 4.19.257, 5.4.212, 5.10.141, 5.15.65, 5.19.7 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux linux_kernel2.6.24 ≤ v < 4.9.327, 4.10 ≤ v < 4.14.292, 4.15 ≤ v < 4.19.257, 4.20 ≤ v < 5.4.212, 5.5 ≤ v < 5.10.141, 5.11 ≤ v < 5.15.65, 5.16 ≤ v < 5.19.7, 6.04.9.327, 4.14.292, 4.19.257, 5.4.212, 5.10.141, 5.15.65, 5.19.7

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