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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-49080" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-02-26T01:54:41.176Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T18:52:38.593Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:49.724Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49080" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49080.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49080" title: "mm/mempolicy: fix mpol_new leak in shared_policy_replace" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/mempolicy: fix mpol_new leak in shared_policy_replace\n\nIf mpol_new is allocated but not used in restart loop, mpol_new will be\nfreed via mpol_put before returning to the caller. But refcnt is not\ninitialized yet, so mpol_put could not do the right things and might\nleak the unused mpol_new. This would happen if mempolicy was updated on\nthe shared shmem file while the sp-\u003elock has been dropped during the\nmemory allocation.\n\nThis issue could be triggered easily with the below code snippet if\nthere are many processes doing the below work at the same time:\n\n shmid = shmget((key_t)5566, 1024 * PAGE_SIZE, 0666|IPC_CREAT);\n shm = shmat(shmid, 0, 0);\n loop many times {\n mbind(shm, 1024 * PAGE_SIZE, MPOL_LOCAL, mask, maxnode, 0);\n mbind(shm + 128 * PAGE_SIZE, 128 * PAGE_SIZE, MPOL_DEFAULT, mask,\n maxnode, 0);\n }" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"42288fe366c4f1ce7522bc9f27d0bc2a81c55264","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8510c2346d9e47a72b7f018a36ef0c39483e53d6"},{"version":"42288fe366c4f1ce7522bc9f27d0bc2a81c55264","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5e16dc5378abd749a836daa9ee4ab2c8d2668999"},{"version":"42288fe366c4f1ce7522bc9f27d0bc2a81c55264","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"39a32f3c06f6d68a530bf9612afa19f50f12e93d"},{"version":"42288fe366c4f1ce7522bc9f27d0bc2a81c55264","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"25f506273b6ae806fd46bfcb6fdaa5b9ec81a05b"},{"version":"42288fe366c4f1ce7522bc9f27d0bc2a81c55264","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f7e183b0a7136b6dc9c7b9b2a85a608a8feba894"},{"version":"42288fe366c4f1ce7522bc9f27d0bc2a81c55264","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"198932a14aeb19a15cf19e51e151d023bc4cd648"},{"version":"42288fe366c4f1ce7522bc9f27d0bc2a81c55264","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6e00309ac716fa8225f0cbde2cd9c24f0e74ee21"},{"version":"42288fe366c4f1ce7522bc9f27d0bc2a81c55264","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fe39ac59dbbf893b73b24e3184161d0bd06d6651"},{"version":"42288fe366c4f1ce7522bc9f27d0bc2a81c55264","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4ad099559b00ac01c3726e5c95dc3108ef47d03e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.8"},{"version":"4.9.311","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.9.*"},{"version":"4.14.276","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.238","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.34","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.16.20","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.16.*"},{"version":"5.17.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.17.*"},{"version":"5.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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