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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49210"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-02-26T01:55:47.679Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T18:55:16.710Z"
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-2022-49210"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49210.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49210"
title: "MIPS: pgalloc: fix memory leak caused by pgd_free()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nMIPS: pgalloc: fix memory leak caused by pgd_free()\n\npgd page is freed by generic implementation pgd_free() since commit\nf9cb654cb550 (\"asm-generic: pgalloc: provide generic pgd_free()\"),\nhowever, there are scenarios that the system uses more than one page as\nthe pgd table, in such cases the generic implementation pgd_free() won't\nbe applicable anymore. For example, when PAGE_SIZE_4KB is enabled and\nMIPS_VA_BITS_48 is not enabled in a 64bit system, the macro \"PGD_ORDER\"\nwill be set as \"1\", which will cause allocating two pages as the pgd\ntable. Well, at the same time, the generic implementation pgd_free()\njust free one pgd page, which will result in the memory leak.\n\nThe memory leak can be easily detected by executing shell command:\n\"while true; do ls \u003e /dev/null; grep MemFree /proc/meminfo; done\""
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f9cb654cb550b7b87e8608b14fc3eca432429ffe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fa3d44424579972cc7c4fac3d9cf227798ebdfa0"},{"version":"f9cb654cb550b7b87e8608b14fc3eca432429ffe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d29cda15cab086d82d692de016f7249545d4b6b4"},{"version":"f9cb654cb550b7b87e8608b14fc3eca432429ffe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5a8501d34b261906e4c76ec9da679f2cb4d309ed"},{"version":"f9cb654cb550b7b87e8608b14fc3eca432429ffe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1bf0d78c8cc3cf615a6e7bf33ada70b73592f0a1"},{"version":"f9cb654cb550b7b87e8608b14fc3eca432429ffe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2bc5bab9a763d520937e4f3fe8df51c6a1eceb97"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.9"},{"version":"5.10.110","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.33","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.16.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.16.*"},{"version":"5.17.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.17.*"},{"version":"5.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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