CVE-2022-50517 — Premature Release of Resource During Expected Lifetime in Linux

CWE-826 — Premature Release of Resource During Expected Lifetime6 documents6 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 95.28%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
LinuxLinux KernelDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedOct 7
Latest updateApr 18

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/huge_memory: do not clobber swp_entry_t during THP split The following has been observed when running stressng mmap since commit b653db77350c ("mm: Clear page->private when splitting or migrating a page") watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#75 stuck for 26s! [stress-ng:9546] CPU: 75 PID: 9546 Comm: stress-ng Tainted: G E 6.0.0-revert-b653db77-fix+ #29 0357d79b60fb09775f678e4f3f64ef0579ad1374 Hardware name: SGI.COM C2112-4GP3/…

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_kernel5.19.1 — 6.0.7+2
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 6.0.7-1+2
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxb653db77350c7307a513b81856fe53e94cf42446 — 8cace0eeb03d6043827faa6cf6c9067a9f05cd9f+2
▶debiandebian/linux< linux 6.0.7-1 (bookworm)

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
VulDB
Linux Kernel up to 6.0.6 huge_memory folio_test_swapcache state issue (WID-SEC-2025-2229)↗2026-04-18
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GHSA
GHSA-8jc8-9g79-v496: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/huge_memory: do not clobber swp_entry_t during THP split The following has be↗2025-10-07
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OSV
CVE-2022-50517: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/huge_memory: do not clobber swp_entry_t during THP split The following has been↗2025-10-07
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: mm/huge_memory: do not clobber swp_entry_t during THP split↗2025-10-07
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Debian
CVE-2022-50517: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/huge_mem...↗2022
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