CVE-2022-50376 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 95.77%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedSep 18
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
orangefs: Fix kmemleak in orangefs_{kernel,client}_debug_init()
When insert and remove the orangefs module, there are memory leaked
as below:
unreferenced object 0xffff88816b0cc000 (size 2048):
comm "insmod", pid 783, jiffies 4294813439 (age 65.512s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
6e 6f 6e 65 0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 none............
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[] kmalloc…
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/linuxf7ab093f74bf638ed98fd1115f3efa17e308bb7f — bdc2d33fa2324b1f5ab5b701cda45ee0b2384409+6
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
2GHSA▶
GHSA-9gf4-f4p2-2v66: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
orangefs: Fix kmemleak in orangefs_{kernel,client}_debug_init()
When insert and↗2025-09-18
OSV▶
CVE-2022-50376: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: orangefs: Fix kmemleak in orangefs_{kernel,client}_debug_init() When insert and re↗2025-09-18