CVE-2022-49819
Published: 01 May 2025
Summary
CVE-2022-49819 is a medium-severity Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime (CWE-401) vulnerability in Linux Linux Kernel. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 34.7th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-12947
Vulnerability details
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: octeon_ep: fix potential memory leak in octep_device_setup() When occur unsupported_dev and mbox init errors, it did not free oct->conf and iounmap() oct->mmio[i].hw_addr. That would trigger memory leak problem. Add kfree()…
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for oct->conf and iounmap() for oct->mmio[i].hw_addr under unsupported_dev and mbox init errors to fix the problem.
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Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
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