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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49996"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-06-18T11:00:56.175Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:23:31.343Z"
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-2022-49996"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49996.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49996"
title: "btrfs: fix possible memory leak in btrfs_get_dev_args_from_path()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: fix possible memory leak in btrfs_get_dev_args_from_path()\n\nIn btrfs_get_dev_args_from_path(), btrfs_get_bdev_and_sb() can fail if\nthe path is invalid. In this case, btrfs_get_dev_args_from_path()\nreturns directly without freeing args-\u003euuid and args-\u003efsid allocated\nbefore, which causes memory leak.\n\nTo fix these possible leaks, when btrfs_get_bdev_and_sb() fails,\nbtrfs_put_dev_args_from_path() is called to clean up the memory."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"321a81835b4aed4f717f89921286f6544ffa8be9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5f52402c77013e4a826394b807dd5ea4dc83bd72"},{"version":"faa775c41d655a4786e9d53cb075a77bb5a75f66","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4b124ad87244cd7f0883c5eaa38d2326b2154cad"},{"version":"faa775c41d655a4786e9d53cb075a77bb5a75f66","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9ea0106a7a3d8116860712e3f17cd52ce99f6707"},{"version":"5.15.54","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.64"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"},{"version":"5.15.64","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.19.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.19.*"},{"version":"6.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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