CVE-2022-3533

Linux Kernel BPF usdt.c parse_usdt_arg memory leak

At a glance

Severity: LOW 3.5
EPSS: EPSS 0.41 % · percentile 36 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2022-10-17
Updated: 2025-04-15
Assigner: VulDB
NVD status: Modified

Description

A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects the function parse_usdt_arg of the file tools/lib/bpf/usdt.c of the component BPF. The manipulation of the argument reg_name leads to memory leak. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-211031.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	LOW 3.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	VulDB
CVSS 3.1	LOW 3.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	NVD · cna@vuldb.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.7	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-404

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2022-42899
GCVE · GCVE-0-2022-3533

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 6.2

Affected products

Product	Versions
Linux · Kernel	affected n/a

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD