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medium 5.5

CVE-2022-49741 json

fbdev: smscufx: fix error handling code in ufx_usb_probe

published 2025-03-27 19 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-55182

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 9%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

fbdev: smscufx: fix error handling code in ufx_usb_probe

The current error handling code in ufx_usb_probe have many unmatching issues, e.g., missing ufx_free_usb_list, destroy_modedb label should only include framebuffer_release, fb_dealloc_cmap only matches fb_alloc_cmap.

My local syzkaller reports a memory leak bug:

memory leak in ufx_usb_probe

BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff88802f879580 (size 128): comm "kworker/0:7", pid 17416, jiffies 4295067474 (age 46.710s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 80 21 7c 2e 80 88 ff ff 18 d0 d0 0c 80 88 ff ff .!|............. 00 d0 d0 0c 80 88 ff ff e0 ff ff ff 0f 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<ffffffff814c99a0>] kmalloc_trace+0x20/0x90 mm/slab_common.c:1045 [<ffffffff824d219c>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:553 [inline] [<ffffffff824d219c>] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:689 [inline] [<ffffffff824d219c>] ufx_alloc_urb_list drivers/video/fbdev/smscufx.c:1873 [inline] [<ffffffff824d219c>] ufx_usb_probe+0x11c/0x15a0 drivers/video/fbdev/smscufx.c:1655 [<ffffffff82d17927>] usb_probe_interface+0x177/0x370 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396 [<ffffffff82712f0d>] call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:560 [inline] [<ffffffff82712f0d>] really_probe+0x12d/0x390 drivers/base/dd.c:639 [<ffffffff8271322f>] __driver_probe_device+0xbf/0x140 drivers/base/dd.c:778 [<ffffffff827132da>] driver_probe_device+0x2a/0x120 drivers/base/dd.c:808 [<ffffffff82713c27>] __device_attach_driver+0xf7/0x150 drivers/base/dd.c:936 [<ffffffff82710137>] bus_for_each_drv+0xb7/0x100 drivers/base/bus.c:427 [<ffffffff827136b5>] __device_attach+0x105/0x2d0 drivers/base/dd.c:1008 [<ffffffff82711d36>] bus_probe_device+0xc6/0xe0 drivers/base/bus.c:487 [<ffffffff8270e242>] device_add+0x642/0xdc0 drivers/base/core.c:3517 [<ffffffff82d14d5f>] usb_set_configuration+0x8ef/0xb80 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2170 [<ffffffff82d2576c>] usb_generic_driver_probe+0x8c/0xc0 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:238 [<ffffffff82d16ffc>] usb_probe_device+0x5c/0x140 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:293 [<ffffffff82712f0d>] call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:560 [inline] [<ffffffff82712f0d>] really_probe+0x12d/0x390 drivers/base/dd.c:639 [<ffffffff8271322f>] __driver_probe_device+0xbf/0x140 drivers/base/dd.c:778

Fix this bug by rewriting the error handling code in ufx_usb_probe.

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 4.10, 4.15, 4.20, 5.4.232, 5.10.168, 5.15.93, 6.1, 6.1.11, 6.2
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 6.1.11-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49741

  • linux Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-149.166
  • linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-72.79
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1102.110
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1036.40
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1105.114
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1034.42
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1033.38
  • linux-ibm Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1049.54

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49741

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-rt SLE Micro 5.5 5.14.21-150500.13.94.1
  • kernel-source-rt SLE Micro 5.5 5.14.21-150500.13.94.1
  • kernel-64kb SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-ESPOS 5.14.21-150400.24.164.1
  • kernel-syms SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +3 more 5.14.21-150400.24.164.1
  • kernel-source SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +3 more 5.14.21-150400.24.164.1
  • kernel-default SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.4 +7 more 5.14.21-150400.24.164.1
  • kernel-zfcpdump SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, Manager Server 4.3 5.14.21-150400.24.164.1
  • kernel-obs-build SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +1 more 5.14.21-150400.24.164.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:01640-1SUSE-SU-2025:01627-1SUSE-SU-2025:01620-1SUSE-SU-2025:1573-1

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-2022-49741 updated cvss 3.3

kernel: fbdev: smscufx: fix error handling code in ufx_usb_probe

  • 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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
    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
13 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 9% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

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

Sources

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