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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2022-48661 json

gpio: mockup: Fix potential resource leakage when register a chip

published 2024-04-28 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-51356

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 12%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

gpio: mockup: Fix potential resource leakage when register a chip

If creation of software node fails, the locally allocated string array is left unfreed. Free it on error path.

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 5.15.71, 5.19.12, 6.0
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 6.0.2-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48661

  • linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-57.63
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1027.31
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1026.33
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1024.29
  • linux-ibm Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1022.25
  • linux-kvm Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1025.30
  • linux-azure Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1030.37
  • linux-gkeop Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1012.16

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48661

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-48661 updated cvss 5.5

kernel: gpio: mockup: Fix potential resource leakage when register a chip

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 12% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-404 Improper Resource Shutdown or Release
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References

Sources

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