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CVE-2022-49050

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-49050 is a memory leak vulnerability in the Linux kernel's Renesas RPC-IF driver, specifically affecting the memory management of platform devices. With a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), a local attacker could exploit this with low complexity to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) due to unreleased memory in an error path. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 5.9, < 5.10.112CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.11, < 5.15.35CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.16, < 5.17.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.18CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.18:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.18CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.18:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.26%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
18.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0026 is in the 73rd percentile among its peer group of 15,940 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2022-49050Moderate

kernel: memory: renesas-rpc-if: fix platform-device leak in error path

Feb 26, 2025

References

git.kernel.org / stable/c/05d1824a7fb43ab9adb1eb82404954af81d8c984
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/66b9b707ea4dcafca92b6261c6924652914e3b73
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/b452dbf24d7d9a990d70118462925f6ee287d135
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/c089ffc846c85f200db34ad208338f4f81a6d82d
Patch