CVE-2022-50451 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Linux

CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime5 documents5 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 96.90%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
LinuxLinux KernelDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedOct 1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: Fix memory leak on ntfs_fill_super() error path syzbot reported kmemleak as below: BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff8880122f1540 (size 32): comm "a.out", pid 6664, jiffies 4294939771 (age 25.500s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ed ff ed ff 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [] ntfs_init_fs_context+0x22/0x1c0 [] alloc_…

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

▶NVDlinux/linux_kernel5.15 — 5.15.87+2
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 6.1.4-1+2
▶CVEListV5linux/linux4534a70b7056fd4b9a1c6db5a4ce3c98546b291e — 2dd9ccfb06bcdad30ad92d96c3affa38a458679e+4
▶debiandebian/linux< linux 6.1.4-1 (bookworm)

Patches

Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-hfqr-838f-pj36: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: Fix memory leak on ntfs_fill_super() error path syzbot reported kmemle↗2025-10-01
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OSV
CVE-2022-50451: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: Fix memory leak on ntfs_fill_super() error path syzbot reported kmemleak↗2025-10-01
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: fs/ntfs3: Fix memory leak on ntfs_fill_super() error path↗2025-10-01
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Debian
CVE-2022-50451: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: F...↗2022
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