What is CVE-2022-50561?

CVE-2022-50561 is a unscored severity Linux kernel vulnerability, affecting Linux kernel versions from 5.13 onward and patched in 5.15.86, 6.0.16, 6.1.2 and others. CVE-2022-50561 has not been confirmed as actively exploited and is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2022-50561?

CVE-2022-50561 has a CVSS score of pending NVD analysis out of 10, rated awaiting scoring severity.

Is there a patch available for CVE-2022-50561?

Yes, CVE-2022-50561 has been patched. Fixed versions include 5.15.86, 6.0.16, 6.1.2 and others. If you are running Linux kernel 5.13 or later up to the fix versions, apply the relevant patch for your kernel branch.

Is CVE-2022-50561 actively exploited?

CVE-2022-50561 has not been confirmed as actively exploited and is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

CVE-2022-50561

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

Package Linux Kernel

Published 2025-10-22

Last modified 2026-04-15

Patch available

Yes

Affected versions

Linux kernel versions 5.13 and later are affected. Fixed in 5.15.86, 6.0.16, 6.1.2, 6.2 and their respective stable series.

Affected from

≥ 5.13

Fixed in

✓ 5.15.86 5.15.x ✓ 6.0.16 6.0.x ✓ 6.1.2 6.1.x ✓ 6.2

References

The following references provide additional information about CVE-2022-50561 including vendor advisories, patch commits, exploit details, and third-party analysis. Links are sourced from the NIST NVD database.

Kernel patch commit
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5de3add7509c95685f1185683b817dd206c4b1f1
Patch
Kernel patch commit
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/86fdd15e10e404e70ecb2a3bff24d70356d42b36
Patch
Kernel patch commit
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a154b1c139fbf6a49762159be81d425d41ceec87
Patch

4 patch commits total View all on NVD

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-50561?

CVE-2022-50561 is a unscored severity Linux kernel vulnerability . It affects Linux kernel versions from 5.13 onward and has been patched in 5.15.86, 6.0.16, 6.1.2 and others. CVE-2022-50561 has not been confirmed as actively exploited and is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Is there a patch available for CVE-2022-50561?

Yes — CVE-2022-50561 has been patched. Fixed versions include 5.15.86, 6.0.16, 6.1.2 and others. If you are running Linux kernel 5.13 or later up to the fix versions, apply the relevant patch for your kernel branch.
Is CVE-2022-50561 actively exploited?

No — CVE-2022-50561 has not been confirmed as actively exploited. It is not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.