CVE-2022-50751 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUM
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 89.30%
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:
configfs: fix possible memory leak in configfs_create_dir()
kmemleak reported memory leaks in configfs_create_dir():
unreferenced object 0xffff888009f6af00 (size 192):
comm "modprobe", pid 3777, jiffies 4295537735 (age 233.784s)
backtrace:
kmem_cache_alloc (mm/slub.c:3250 mm/slub.c:3256 mm/slub.c:3263 mm/slub.c:3273)
new_fragment (./include/linux/slab.h:600 fs/configfs/dir.c:163)
configfs_register_subsystem (fs/configfs/dir.c…
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux7063fbf2261194f72ee75afca67b3b38b554b5fa — 90c38f57a821499391526b15cc944c265bd24e48+6
🔴Vulnerability Details
3GHSA▶
GHSA-7px2-rh6v-wcpc: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
configfs: fix possible memory leak in configfs_create_dir()
kmemleak reported me↗2025-12-24
OSV▶
CVE-2022-50751: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: configfs: fix possible memory leak in configfs_create_dir() kmemleak reported memo↗2025-12-24