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CVE-2022-50748 (GCVE-0-2022-50748)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-24 13:05 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:24
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Title
ipc: mqueue: fix possible memory leak in init_mqueue_fs()
Summary
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.
Severity
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: dc55e35f9e810f23dd69cfdc91a3d636023f57a2 , < a1f321051e0dcf2415fb94f81fdc5044cad4c1d6 (git)
Affected: dc55e35f9e810f23dd69cfdc91a3d636023f57a2 , < 55b3709c6d68e32cd3fdd2a630b1f4c97d51b17c (git)
Affected: dc55e35f9e810f23dd69cfdc91a3d636023f57a2 , < c579d60f0d0cd87552f64fdebe68b5d941d20309 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.19
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.19 (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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