PT-2025-8152 · Linux+2 · Linux Kernel+2

Miaoqian Lin · Published 2025-02-26 · Updated 2025-04-15 · CVE-2022-49224

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)

Description A memory leak issue has been identified in the Linux kernel, specifically in the ab8500 power supply component. The kobject init and add() function takes a reference even when it fails, leading to a memory leak. According to the documentation, kobject put() must be called to properly clean up the memory associated with the object when kobject init and add() returns an error. The issue is resolved by calling kobject put() to fix the memory leak.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Memory Leak

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-401

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-49224

OPENSUSE-SU-2025_1263-1

SUSE-SU-2025:1027-1

SUSE-SU-2025:1176-1

SUSE-SU-2025:1183-1

SUSE-SU-2025:1194-1

SUSE-SU-2025:1241-1

SUSE-SU-2025:1263-1

SUSE-SU-2025_1027-1

SUSE-SU-2025_1241-1

SUSE-SU-2025_1263-1

Affected Products

Astra Linux

Linux Kernel

Suse

References · 1346

• 🔥 https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/49xxx/CVE-2022-49224.json · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2025:1263-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c32f6b6196b6efc1c68990dfeaac36fb8eb3b8e1 · Patch
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-49224 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2025:1027-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49224 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-49224 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49224 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2025:1241-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49224 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2025:1194-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2025:1176-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49224 · Vendor Advisory
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a4760463dbc6b603690938c468839985189ce0a · Patch
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-49224 · Vendor Advisory