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medium 5.5

CVE-2022-48775 json

Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix memory leak in vmbus_add_channel_kobj

published 2024-07-16 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-53654

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 13%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix memory leak in vmbus_add_channel_kobj

kobject_init_and_add() takes reference even when it fails. According to the doc of kobject_init_and_add()：

If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to properly clean up the memory associated with the object.

Fix memory leak by calling kobject_put().

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 4.19.231, 5.4.181, 5.10.102, 5.15.25, 5.16.11, 5.17
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.16.11-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48775

  • linux Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-110.124
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1073.78
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1073.78
  • linux-ibm Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1021.23
  • linux-iot Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1004.6
  • linux-kvm Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1063.66
  • linux-azure Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1078.81
  • linux-gkeop Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1040.41

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48775

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

  • kernel-64kb SLES 15 SP3-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS, Enterprise Storage 7.1 5.3.18-150300.59.174.1
  • kernel-syms SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES 15 SP3-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS +1 more 5.3.18-150300.59.174.1
  • kernel-source SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES 15 SP3-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS +1 more 5.3.18-150300.59.174.1
  • kernel-default SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES 15 SP3-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.2 +5 more 5.3.18-150300.59.174.1
  • kernel-preempt SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES 15 SP3-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS +1 more 5.3.18-150300.59.174.1
  • kernel-obs-build SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES 15 SP3-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS +1 more 5.3.18-150300.59.174.1
  • kernel-default-base SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES 15 SP3-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.2 +3 more 5.3.18-150300.59.174.1.150300.18.103.1
  • kernel-rt SLE Micro 5.2, SLE Micro 5.1 5.3.18-150300.181.2

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2024:3249-1SUSE-SU-2024:3225-1SUSE-SU-2024:2947-1SUSE-SU-2024:2940-1SUSE-SU-2024:2939-1SUSE-SU-2024:2929-1

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-2022-48775 updated cvss 5.5

kernel: Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix memory leak in vmbus_add_channel_kobj

  • 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
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • 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

0.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 13% 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-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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