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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49408"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-02-26T02:12:32.048Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T18:59:11.006Z"
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-2022-49408"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49408.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49408"
title: "ext4: fix memory leak in parse_apply_sb_mount_options()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: fix memory leak in parse_apply_sb_mount_options()\n\nIf processing the on-disk mount options fails after any memory was\nallocated in the ext4_fs_context, e.g. s_qf_names, then this memory is\nleaked.  Fix this by calling ext4_fc_free() instead of kfree() directly.\n\nReproducer:\n\n    mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/vdc\n    tune2fs /dev/vdc -E mount_opts=usrjquota=file\n    echo clear \u003e /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak\n    mount /dev/vdc /vdc\n    echo scan \u003e /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak\n    sleep 5\n    echo scan \u003e /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak\n    cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"7edfd85b1ffd36593011dec96ab395912a340418","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9ea3e6168948189cec31d0678d2b55b395f88491"},{"version":"7edfd85b1ffd36593011dec96ab395912a340418","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f92ded66e9d0aa20b883a2a5183973abc8f41815"},{"version":"7edfd85b1ffd36593011dec96ab395912a340418","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c069db76ed7b681c69159f44be96d2137e9ca989"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.17"},{"version":"5.17.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.17.*"},{"version":"5.18.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.18.*"},{"version":"5.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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