CVE-2022-49893

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49893
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49893.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-49893
Downstream
Published
2025-05-01T14:10:36.503Z
Modified
2025-11-19T17:00:12.743430Z
Summary
cxl/region: Fix cxl_region leak, cleanup targets at region delete
Details

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

cxl/region: Fix cxl_region leak, cleanup targets at region delete

When a region is deleted any targets that have been previously assigned to that region hold references to it. Trigger those references to drop by detaching all targets at unregister_region() time.

Otherwise that region object will leak as userspace has lost the ability to detach targets once region sysfs is torn down.

References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
b9686e8c8e39d4072081ef078c04915ee51c8af4
Fixed
45d9fb4b758b9d602ee7776eb6754b0349946aad
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
b9686e8c8e39d4072081ef078c04915ee51c8af4
Fixed
0d9e734018d70cecf79e2e4c6082167160a0f13f

Affected versions

v5.*

v5.19
v5.19-rc4
v5.19-rc5
v5.19-rc6
v5.19-rc7
v5.19-rc8

v6.*

v6.0
v6.0-rc1
v6.0-rc2
v6.0-rc3
v6.0-rc4
v6.0-rc5
v6.0-rc6
v6.0-rc7
v6.0.1
v6.0.2
v6.0.3
v6.0.4
v6.0.5
v6.0.6
v6.0.7
v6.1-rc1

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.0.0
Fixed
6.0.8