CVE-2022-49784
CVE-2022-49784CVE-2022-49784
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
perf/x86/amd/uncore: Fix memory leak for events array
When a CPU comes online, the per-CPU NB and LLC uncore contexts are
freed but not the events array within the context structure. This
causes a memory leak as identified by the kmemleak detector.
[...]
unreferenced object 0xffff8c5944b8e320 (size 32):
comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294670387 (age 151.072s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<000000000759fb79>] amd_uncore_cpu_up_prepare+0xaf/0x230
[<00000000ddc9e126>] cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x2cf/0x470
[<0000000093e727d4>] cpuhp_issue_call+0x14d/0x170
[<0000000045464d54>] __cpuhp_setup_state_cpuslocked+0x11e/0x330
[<0000000069f67cbd>] __cpuhp_setup_state+0x6b/0x110
[<0000000015365e0f>] amd_uncore_init+0x260/0x321
Scoring
| CVSS | 5.5 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| Last modified | 2026-11-05 |