# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49890"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-05-01T14:10:34.481Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:08:43.268Z"
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-2022-49890"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49890.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49890"
title: "capabilities: fix potential memleak on error path from vfs_getxattr_alloc()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncapabilities: fix potential memleak on error path from vfs_getxattr_alloc()\n\nIn cap_inode_getsecurity(), we will use vfs_getxattr_alloc() to\ncomplete the memory allocation of tmpbuf, if we have completed\nthe memory allocation of tmpbuf, but failed to call handler-\u003eget(...),\nthere will be a memleak in below logic:\n\n  |-- ret = (int)vfs_getxattr_alloc(mnt_userns, ...)\n    |           /* ^^^ alloc for tmpbuf */\n    |-- value = krealloc(*xattr_value, error + 1, flags)\n    |           /* ^^^ alloc memory */\n    |-- error = handler-\u003eget(handler, ...)\n    |           /* error! */\n    |-- *xattr_value = value\n    |           /* xattr_value is &tmpbuf (memory leak!) */\n\nSo we will try to free(tmpbuf) after vfs_getxattr_alloc() fails to fix it.\n\n[PM: subject line and backtrace tweaks]"
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