CVE-2022-50466 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Linux

CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective LifetimeCWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource 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/binfmt_elf: Fix memory leak in load_elf_binary() There is a memory leak reported by kmemleak: unreferenced object 0xffff88817104ef80 (size 224): comm "xfs_admin", pid 47165, jiffies 4298708825 (age 1333.476s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 60 a8 b3 00 81 88 ff ff a8 10 5a 00 81 88 ff ff `.........Z..... backtrace: [] __alloc_file+0x21/0x250 [] alloc_empty_file+0x…

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_kernel5.7 — 5.10.153+3
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 5.10.158-1+3
▶CVEListV5linux/linux0693ffebcfe5ac7b31f63ad54587007f7d96fb7b — 706215300411d48db6b51a5832b872632a84bbc1+4
▶debiandebian/linux< linux 6.0.7-1 (bookworm)

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
OSV
CVE-2022-50466: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/binfmt_elf: Fix memory leak in load_elf_binary() There is a memory leak reporte↗2025-10-01
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GHSA
GHSA-3r6g-ffrp-58wf: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/binfmt_elf: Fix memory leak in load_elf_binary() There is a memory leak repor↗2025-10-01
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: fs/binfmt_elf: Fix memory leak in load_elf_binary()↗2025-10-01
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Debian
CVE-2022-50466: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/binfmt_e...↗2022
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