{
  "cveId": "CVE-2022-49468",
  "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-49468",
  "summary": "CVE-2022-49468 is fixed in linux on 1 platform, first by DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49468, released February 26, 2025. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Routine.",
  "title": "linux: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:  thermal/core: Fix memory leak in __thermal_cooli...",
  "description": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:  thermal/core: Fix memory leak in __thermal_cooling_device_register()  I got memory leak as follows when doing fault injection test:  unreferenced object 0xffff888010080000 (size 264312):   comm \u0022182\u0022, pid 102533, jiffies 4296434960 (age 10.100s)   hex dump (first 32 bytes):     00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00  .....N..........     ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 40 7f 1f b9 ff ff ff ff  ........@.......   backtrace:     [\u003C0000000038b2f4fc\u003E] kmalloc_order_trace\u002B0x1d/0x110 mm/slab_common.c:969     [\u003C00000000ebcb8da5\u003E] __kmalloc\u002B0x373/0x420 include/linux/slab.h:510     [\u003C0000000084137f13\u003E] thermal_cooling_device_setup_sysfs\u002B0x15d/0x2d0 include/linux/slab.h:586     [\u003C00000000352b8755\u003E] __thermal_cooling_device_register\u002B0x332/0xa60 drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c:927     [\u003C00000000fb9f331b\u003E] devm_thermal_of_cooling_device_register\u002B0x6b/0xf0 drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c:1041     [\u003C000000009b8012d2\u003E] max6650_probe.cold\u002B0x557/0x6aa drivers/hwmon/max6650.c:211     [\u003C00000000da0b7e04\u003E] i2c_device_probe\u002B0x472/0xac0 drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c:561  If device_register() fails, thermal_cooling_device_destroy_sysfs() need be called to free the memory allocated in thermal_cooling_device_setup_sysfs().",
  "published": "2025-02-26T07:01:23Z",
  "severity": "medium",
  "cvss": 5.5,
  "cvssVector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
  "epss": 0.00317,
  "epssPercentile": 0.24775,
  "priority": "Routine",
  "priorityTier": 4,
  "exploited": false,
  "vendorExploited": false,
  "disclosed": false,
  "fixes": [
    {
      "platform": "linux",
      "product": "linux",
      "release": "Debian 12.15 (bookworm)",
      "fixedVersion": "5.18.5-1",
      "fix": "DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49468",
      "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/fix/linux/debian-cve-2022-49468",
      "released": "2025-02-26T07:01:23Z"
    },
    {
      "platform": "linux",
      "product": "linux",
      "release": "Debian 13.5 (trixie)",
      "fixedVersion": "5.18.5-1",
      "fix": "DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49468",
      "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/fix/linux/debian-cve-2022-49468",
      "released": "2025-02-26T07:01:23Z"
    },
    {
      "platform": "linux",
      "product": "linux",
      "release": "Debian 14",
      "fixedVersion": "5.18.5-1",
      "fix": "DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49468",
      "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/fix/linux/debian-cve-2022-49468",
      "released": "2025-02-26T07:01:23Z"
    }
  ],
  "noFixYet": [],
  "dataAsOf": "2026-11-08T13:06:02Z",
  "attribution": {
    "text": "Data: Patchblox Patch Radar",
    "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/patch-radar",
    "terms": "https://patchblox.com/security/patch-radar/use-the-data"
  }
}