CVE-2022-50348 (GCVE-0-2022-50348)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-16 16:11 – Updated: 2026-01-14 18:22
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Title
nfsd: Fix a memory leak in an error handling path
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfsd: Fix a memory leak in an error handling path If this memdup_user() call fails, the memory allocated in a previous call a few lines above should be freed. Otherwise it leaks.
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-401 - Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 6ee95d1c899186c0798cafd25998d436bcdb9618 , < acc393aecda05bf64ed13b732931462e07a1bf08 (git)
Affected: 6ee95d1c899186c0798cafd25998d436bcdb9618 , < e060c4b9f33c1fca74df26d57a98e784295327e6 (git)
Affected: 6ee95d1c899186c0798cafd25998d436bcdb9618 , < aed8816305575b38dcc77feb6f1bc1d0ed32f5b8 (git)
Affected: 6ee95d1c899186c0798cafd25998d436bcdb9618 , < 733dd17158f96aaa25408dc39bbb2738fda9300e (git)
Affected: 6ee95d1c899186c0798cafd25998d436bcdb9618 , < cc3bca2110ac85cd964da997ef83d84cab0d49fb (git)
Affected: 6ee95d1c899186c0798cafd25998d436bcdb9618 , < fd1ef88049de09bc70d60b549992524cfc0e66ff (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 5.4
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.4 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.220 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.150 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.75 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.19.17 , ≤ 5.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0.3 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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