CVE-2022-50561 Affecting kernel-source package, versions <5.14.21-150400.24.184.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-KERNELSOURCE-14042932
  • published18 Nov 2025
  • disclosed15 Nov 2025

Introduced: 15 Nov 2025

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How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 kernel-source to version 5.14.21-150400.24.184.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-source package and not the kernel-source package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.4 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

iio: fix memory leak in iio_device_register_eventset()

When iio_device_register_sysfs_group() returns failed, iio_device_register_eventset() needs to free attrs array.

Otherwise, kmemleak would scan & report memory leak as below:

unreferenced object 0xffff88810a1cc3c0 (size 32): comm "100-i2c-vcnl302", pid 728, jiffies 4295052307 (age 156.027s) backtrace: __kmalloc+0x46/0x1b0 iio_device_register_eventset at drivers/iio/industrialio-event.c:541 __iio_device_register at drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c:1959 __devm_iio_device_register at drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c:2040

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1