CVE-2022-50748 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUM
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 93.24%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 24
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipc: mqueue: fix possible memory leak in init_mqueue_fs()
commit db7cfc380900 ("ipc: Free mq_sysctls if ipc namespace creation
failed")
Here's a similar memory leak to the one fixed by the patch above.
retire_mq_sysctls need to be called when init_mqueue_fs fails after
setup_mq_sysctls.
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxdc55e35f9e810f23dd69cfdc91a3d636023f57a2 — a1f321051e0dcf2415fb94f81fdc5044cad4c1d6+3
🔴Vulnerability Details
3GHSA▶
GHSA-28q7-rjgm-6w8f: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipc: mqueue: fix possible memory leak in init_mqueue_fs()
commit db7cfc380900 ("↗2025-12-24
OSV▶
CVE-2022-50748: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipc: mqueue: fix possible memory leak in init_mqueue_fs() commit db7cfc380900 ("ip↗2025-12-24