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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-50043"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-06-18T11:01:44.186Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:11:44.374Z"
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-2022-50043"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50043.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50043"
title: "net: fix potential refcount leak in ndisc_router_discovery()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: fix potential refcount leak in ndisc_router_discovery()\n\nThe issue happens on specific paths in the function. After both the\nobject `rt` and `neigh` are grabbed successfully, when `lifetime` is\nnonzero but the metric needs change, the function just deletes the\nroute and set `rt` to NULL. Then, it may try grabbing `rt` and `neigh`\nagain if above conditions hold. The function simply overwrite `neigh`\nif succeeds or returns if fails, without decreasing the reference\ncount of previous `neigh`. This may result in memory leaks.\n\nFix it by decrementing the reference count of `neigh` in place."
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