CVE-2022-49981

HID: hidraw: fix memory leak in hidraw_release()

published June 18, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
15.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

HID: hidraw: fix memory leak in hidraw_release()

Free the buffered reports before deleting the list entry.

BUG: memory leak

unreferenced object 0xffff88810e72f180 (size 32):

comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 4294945143 (age 16.080s)

hex dump (first 32 bytes):

64 f3 c6 6a d1 88 07 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 d..j............

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

backtrace:

[<ffffffff814ac6c3>] kmemdup+0x23/0x50 mm/util.c:128

[<ffffffff8357c1d2>] kmemdup include/linux/fortify-string.h:440 [inline]

[<ffffffff8357c1d2>] hidraw_report_event+0xa2/0x150 drivers/hid/hidraw.c:521

[<ffffffff8356ddad>] hid_report_raw_event+0x27d/0x740 drivers/hid/hid-core.c:1992

[<ffffffff8356e41e>] hid_input_report+0x1ae/0x270 drivers/hid/hid-core.c:2065

[<ffffffff835f0d3f>] hid_irq_in+0x1ff/0x250 drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c:284

[<ffffffff82d3c7f9>] __usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0xf9/0x230 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1670

[<ffffffff82d3cc26>] usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x1b6/0x1d0 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1747

[<ffffffff82ef1e14>] dummy_timer+0x8e4/0x14c0 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c:1988

[<ffffffff812f50a8>] call_timer_fn+0x38/0x200 kernel/time/timer.c:1474

[<ffffffff812f5586>] expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1519 [inline]

[<ffffffff812f5586>] __run_timers.part.0+0x316/0x430 kernel/time/timer.c:1790

[<ffffffff812f56e4>] __run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1768 [inline]

[<ffffffff812f56e4>] run_timer_softirq+0x44/0x90 kernel/time/timer.c:1803

[<ffffffff848000e6>] __do_softirq+0xe6/0x2ea kernel/softirq.c:571

[<ffffffff81246db0>] invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:445 [inline]

[<ffffffff81246db0>] __irq_exit_rcu kernel/softirq.c:650 [inline]

[<ffffffff81246db0>] irq_exit_rcu+0xc0/0x110 kernel/softirq.c:662

[<ffffffff84574f02>] sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa2/0xd0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1106

[<ffffffff84600c8b>] asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1b/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:649

[<ffffffff8458a070>] native_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:51 [inline]

[<ffffffff8458a070>] arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:89 [inline]

[<ffffffff8458a070>] acpi_safe_halt drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c:111 [inline]

[<ffffffff8458a070>] acpi_idle_do_entry+0xc0/0xd0 drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c:554

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00253 · 15.9th percentile
Published
2025-06-18T11:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 JUN 11:00Z
    HID: hidraw: fix memory leak in hidraw_release()
    cvelistv5