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CVE-2022-50561— iio: fix memory leak in iio_device_register_eventset()

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Affected
Linux Linux
Exploitation
No confirmed in-the-wild exploitation; assess based on exposure
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Linux kernel是美国Linux基金会的开源操作系统Linux所使用的内核。 Linux kernel存在安全漏洞，该漏洞源于iio_device_register_eventset函数中iio_device_register_sysfs_group调用失败时未释放attrs数组，可能导致内存泄漏。

AI Predicted 5.5 Difficulty: Trivial EPSS 0.21% · P11

Possible ATT&CK Techniques 1 AI

T1496 · Resource Hijacking

Affected Version Matrix 10

VendorProduct Version RangeStatus
Linux Linux 32f171724e5cbecc80594fb6eced057cfdd6eb6f< dc6afd6070f3a5b086c8c5cfa6ded63ae44494da affected
32f171724e5cbecc80594fb6eced057cfdd6eb6f< 5de3add7509c95685f1185683b817dd206c4b1f1 affected
32f171724e5cbecc80594fb6eced057cfdd6eb6f< a154b1c139fbf6a49762159be81d425d41ceec87 affected
32f171724e5cbecc80594fb6eced057cfdd6eb6f< 86fdd15e10e404e70ecb2a3bff24d70356d42b36 affected
5.13 affected
< 5.13 unaffected
5.15.86≤ 5.15.* unaffected
6.0.16≤ 6.0.* unaffected
… +2 more rows
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I. Basic Information for CVE-2022-50561

Vulnerability Information
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Vulnerability Title
iio: fix memory leak in iio_device_register_eventset()
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: fix memory leak in iio_device_register_eventset() When iio_device_register_sysfs_group() returns failed, iio_device_register_eventset() needs to free attrs array. Otherwise, kmemleak would scan & report memory leak as below: unreferenced object 0xffff88810a1cc3c0 (size 32): comm "100-i2c-vcnl302", pid 728, jiffies 4295052307 (age 156.027s) backtrace: __kmalloc+0x46/0x1b0 iio_device_register_eventset at drivers/iio/industrialio-event.c:541 __iio_device_register at drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c:1959 __devm_iio_device_register at drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c:2040
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
CVSS Information
N/A
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Type
N/A
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Title
Linux kernel 安全漏洞
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Description
Linux kernel是美国Linux基金会的开源操作系统Linux所使用的内核。 Linux kernel存在安全漏洞，该漏洞源于iio_device_register_eventset函数中iio_device_register_sysfs_group调用失败时未释放attrs数组，可能导致内存泄漏。
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
CVSS Information
N/A
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Type
N/A
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)

Affected Products

Vendor Product Affected Versions CPE Subscribe
Linux Linux 32f171724e5cbecc80594fb6eced057cfdd6eb6f ~ dc6afd6070f3a5b086c8c5cfa6ded63ae44494da -
Linux Linux 5.13 -

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Patches & Fixes for CVE-2022-50561 (2)

Same Patch Batch · Linux · 2025-10-22 · 67 CVEs total

CVE-2023-53711 8.2 HIGH NFS: Fix a potential data corruption
CVE-2023-53705 8.2 HIGH ipv6: Fix out-of-bounds access in ipv6_find_tlv()
CVE-2023-53698 7.8 HIGH xsk: fix refcount underflow in error path
CVE-2023-53692 7.8 HIGH ext4: fix use-after-free read in ext4_find_extent for bigalloc + inline
CVE-2023-53718 7.8 HIGH ring-buffer: Do not swap cpu_buffer during resize process
CVE-2022-50569 7.8 HIGH xfrm: Update ipcomp_scratches with NULL when freed
CVE-2022-50570 7.8 HIGH platform/chrome: fix memory corruption in ioctl
CVE-2022-50567 7.8 HIGH fs: jfs: fix shift-out-of-bounds in dbAllocAG
CVE-2023-53695 7.8 HIGH udf: Detect system inodes linked into directory hierarchy
CVE-2023-53707 7.8 HIGH drm/amdgpu: Fix integer overflow in amdgpu_cs_pass1
CVE-2022-50581 7.8 HIGH hfs: fix OOB Read in __hfs_brec_find
CVE-2023-53729 7.8 HIGH soc: qcom: qmi_encdec: Restrict string length in decode
CVE-2023-53713 7.8 HIGH arm64: sme: Use STR P to clear FFR context field in streaming SVE mode
CVE-2023-53726 7.1 HIGH arm64: csum: Fix OoB access in IP checksum code for negative lengths
CVE-2023-53704 clk: imx: clk-imx8mp: improve error handling in imx8mp_clocks_probe()
CVE-2023-53706 mm/vmemmap/devdax: fix kernel crash when probing devdax devices
CVE-2023-53714 drm/stm: ltdc: fix late dereference check
CVE-2023-53708 ACPI: x86: s2idle: Catch multiple ACPI_TYPE_PACKAGE objects
CVE-2023-53712 ARM: 9317/1: kexec: Make smp stop calls asynchronous
CVE-2023-53719 serial: arc_uart: fix of_iomap leak in `arc_serial_probe`

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