CVE-2022-50342 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 95.55%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedSep 16
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
floppy: Fix memory leak in do_floppy_init()
A memory leak was reported when floppy_alloc_disk() failed in
do_floppy_init().
unreferenced object 0xffff888115ed25a0 (size 8):
comm "modprobe", pid 727, jiffies 4295051278 (age 25.529s)
hex dump (first 8 bytes):
00 ac 67 5b 81 88 ff ff ..g[....
backtrace:
[] __kmalloc_node+0x4c/0xc0
[] blk_mq_realloc_tag_set_tags.part.0+0x6f/0x180
[] blk_mq_alloc_tag_set+0x573/0x1130
[] 0xffffffff…
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/linux302cfee150291c6cd85b1ca197d062d0b423d09c — f36d8c8651506aea5f09899f5356ece5d1384f50+4
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
2GHSA▶
GHSA-86r4-3x7h-8gh4: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
floppy: Fix memory leak in do_floppy_init()
A memory leak was reported when flop↗2025-09-16
OSV▶
CVE-2022-50342: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: floppy: Fix memory leak in do_floppy_init() A memory leak was reported when floppy↗2025-09-16