# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-50269"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-15T14:21:05.485Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:16:03.635Z"
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-2022-50269"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50269.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50269"
title: "drm/vkms: Fix memory leak in vkms_init()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/vkms: Fix memory leak in vkms_init()\n\nA memory leak was reported after the vkms module install failed.\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff88810bc28520 (size 16):\n  comm \"modprobe\", pid 9662, jiffies 4298009455 (age 42.590s)\n  hex dump (first 16 bytes):\n    01 01 00 64 81 88 ff ff 00 00 dc 0a 81 88 ff ff  ...d............\n  backtrace:\n    [\u003c00000000e7561ff8\u003e] kmalloc_trace+0x27/0x60\n    [\u003c000000000b1954a0\u003e] 0xffffffffc45200a9\n    [\u003c00000000abbf1da0\u003e] do_one_initcall+0xd0/0x4f0\n    [\u003c000000001505ee87\u003e] do_init_module+0x1a4/0x680\n    [\u003c00000000958079ad\u003e] load_module+0x6249/0x7110\n    [\u003c00000000117e4696\u003e] __do_sys_finit_module+0x140/0x200\n    [\u003c00000000f74b12d2\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80\n    [\u003c000000008fc6fcde\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0\n\nThe reason is that the vkms_init() returns without checking the return\nvalue of vkms_create(), and if the vkms_create() failed, the config\nallocated at the beginning of vkms_init() is leaked.\n\n vkms_init()\n   config = kmalloc(...) # config allocated\n   ...\n   return vkms_create() # vkms_create failed and config is leaked\n\nFix this problem by checking return value of vkms_create() and free the\nconfig if error happened."
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