# 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-2022-50148"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-06-18T11:03:08.462Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:13:45.359Z"
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-2022-50148"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50148.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50148"
title: "kernfs: fix potential NULL dereference in __kernfs_remove"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nkernfs: fix potential NULL dereference in __kernfs_remove\n\nWhen lockdep is enabled, lockdep_assert_held_write would\ncause potential NULL pointer dereference.\n\nFix the following smatch warnings:\n\nfs/kernfs/dir.c:1353 __kernfs_remove() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'kn' (see line 1346)"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"393c3714081a53795bbff0e985d24146def6f57f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b871986d9d3071f5082664ac274d93f08db257cd"},{"version":"393c3714081a53795bbff0e985d24146def6f57f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4a9f35b8729c5bf13ea671c908c17ed74c48fc50"},{"version":"393c3714081a53795bbff0e985d24146def6f57f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"72b5d5aef246a0387cefa23121dd90901c7a691a"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.17"},{"version":"5.18.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.18.*"},{"version":"5.19.2","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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