CVE-2022-49830drm/drv: Fix potential memory leak in drm_dev_init()
- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.21%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 88% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/drv: Fix potential memory leak in drm_dev_init() drm_dev_init() will add drm_dev_init_release() as a callback. When drmm_add_action() failed, the release function won't be added. As the result, the ref cnt added by device_get() in drm_dev_init() won't be put by drm_dev_init_release(), which leads to the memleak. Use drmm_add_action_or_reset() instead of drmm_add_action() to prevent memleak. unreferenced object 0xffff88810bc0c800 (size 2048): comm "modprobe", pid 8322, jiffies 4305809845 (age 15.292s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): e8 cc c0 0b 81 88 ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 ................ 20 24 3c 0c 81 88 ff ff 18 c8 c0 0b 81 88 ff ff $<............. backtrace: [<000000007251f72d>] __kmalloc+0x4b/0x1c0 [<0000000045f21f26>] platform_device_alloc+0x2d/0xe0 [<000000004452a479>] platform_device_register_full+0x24/0x1c0 [<0000000089f4ea61>] 0xffffffffa0736051 [<00000000235b2441>] do_one_initcall+0x7a/0x380 [<0000000001a4a177>] do_init_module+0x5c/0x230 [<000000002bf8a8e2>] load_module+0x227d/0x2420 [<00000000637d6d0a>] __do_sys_finit_module+0xd5/0x140 [<00000000c99fc324>] do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90 [<000000004d85aa77>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
Timeline
ID reserved
By Linux
Published
- 18 months later
· 18 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.21% · top 88% of all CVEs (15 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
- affected 2cbf7fc6718b9443ecd6261308c6348d8ffcccae – < c47a823ea186263ab69cfb665327b7f72cb5e779
- affected 2cbf7fc6718b9443ecd6261308c6348d8ffcccae – < 07e56de8766fe5be67252596244b84ac0ec0de91
- affected 2cbf7fc6718b9443ecd6261308c6348d8ffcccae – < bd8d1335e6e70a396094ef98913b513140c0b86b
- affected 2cbf7fc6718b9443ecd6261308c6348d8ffcccae – < ff963634f7b2e0dc011349abb3fb81a0d074f443
- affected 5.8
- unaffected < 5.8
- unaffected 5.10.156 – ≤ 5.10.*
- unaffected 5.15.80 – ≤ 5.15.*
- unaffected 6.0.10 – ≤ 6.0.*
- unaffected 6.1 – ≤ *
References
References4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c47a823ea186263ab69cfb665327b7f72cb5e779 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/07e56de8766fe5be67252596244b84ac0ec0de91 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd8d1335e6e70a396094ef98913b513140c0b86b (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff963634f7b2e0dc011349abb3fb81a0d074f443 (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-12939 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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