CVE-2022-50545 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Linux

CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime6 documents6 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 97.44%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
LinuxLinux KernelDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedOct 7
Latest updateApr 20

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: r6040: Fix kmemleak in probe and remove There is a memory leaks reported by kmemleak: unreferenced object 0xffff888116111000 (size 2048): comm "modprobe", pid 817, jiffies 4294759745 (age 76.502s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 c4 0a 04 81 88 ff ff 08 10 11 16 81 88 ff ff ................ 08 10 11 16 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [] kmalloc_trace+0x22/0x60 [] phy_device_create+0x4e/0x90 [] get…

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_kernel2.6.36 — 4.9.337+7
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 5.10.178-1+3
▶CVEListV5linux/linux3831861b4ad8fd0ad7110048eb3e155628799d2b — a04707f4596952049da05756c27398c34d9a1d36+9
▶debiandebian/linux< linux 6.1.4-1 (bookworm)

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
VulDB
Linux Kernel up to 6.1.1 r6040_remove_one reference count (EUVD-2025-32019 / Nessus ID 279908)↗2026-04-20
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GHSA
GHSA-2q87-gcq9-5rfq: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: r6040: Fix kmemleak in probe and remove There is a memory leaks reported by kmem↗2025-10-07
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OSV
CVE-2022-50545: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: r6040: Fix kmemleak in probe and remove There is a memory leaks reported by kmemle↗2025-10-07
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: r6040: Fix kmemleak in probe and remove↗2025-10-07
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Debian
CVE-2022-50545: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: r6040: Fix ...↗2022
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