CVE-2022-50289 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 96.24%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedSep 15
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ocfs2: fix memory leak in ocfs2_stack_glue_init()
ocfs2_table_header should be free in ocfs2_stack_glue_init() if
ocfs2_sysfs_init() failed, otherwise kmemleak will report memleak.
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff88810eeb5800 (size 128):
comm "modprobe", pid 4507, jiffies 4296182506 (age 55.888s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
c0 40 14 a0 ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 .@..............
01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux3878f110f71a0971ff7acc15dd6db711b6ef37c6 — 0000281f019111526f7abccc61f2746d2eb626ca+9
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
2GHSA▶
GHSA-63wm-rvcg-492w: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ocfs2: fix memory leak in ocfs2_stack_glue_init()
ocfs2_table_header should be f↗2025-09-15
OSV▶
CVE-2022-50289: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ocfs2: fix memory leak in ocfs2_stack_glue_init() ocfs2_table_header should be fre↗2025-09-15