# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-50007"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-06-18T11:01:12.447Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:10:55.254Z"
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-2022-50007"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50007.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50007"
title: "xfrm: fix refcount leak in __xfrm_policy_check()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxfrm: fix refcount leak in __xfrm_policy_check()\n\nThe issue happens on an error path in __xfrm_policy_check(). When the\nfetching process of the object `pols[1]` fails, the function simply\nreturns 0, forgetting to decrement the reference count of `pols[0]`,\nwhich is incremented earlier by either xfrm_sk_policy_lookup() or\nxfrm_policy_lookup(). This may result in memory leaks.\n\nFix it by decreasing the reference count of `pols[0]` in that path."
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