CVE-2022-49144 - Vulnerability Details

Vendors	Products
Linux	Linux Kernel

Link	Providers
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0853bd6885c2f293d88aaa7f7f1702c959b31680
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7fa8b228c3f30060b9f4b24bb9aaaf41b0ae83fe
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d6d7a517e81accf6ed22d55684baea763d2dbe43
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022608-CVE-2022-49144-0d56@gregkh/T
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49144
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49144

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Linux Linux linux Kernel
Weaknesses		CWE-401
CPEs		cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
Vendors & Products		Linux Linux linux Kernel

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
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Metrics	threat_severity `None`	cvssV3_1 `{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}` threat_severity `Moderate`

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring: fix memory leak of uid in files registration When there are no files for __io_sqe_files_scm() to process in the range, it'll free everything and return. However, it forgets to put uid.
Title		io_uring: fix memory leak of uid in files registration
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