CVE-2022-49857
Published: 01 May 2025
Summary
CVE-2022-49857 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 44.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-12902
Vulnerability details
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: marvell: prestera: fix memory leak in prestera_rxtx_switch_init() When prestera_sdma_switch_init() failed, the memory pointed to by sw->rxtx isn't released. Fix it. Only be compiled, not be tested.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.