# 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-2022-50278"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-15T14:21:15.208Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:16:14.229Z"
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-2022-50278"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50278.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50278"
title: "PNP: fix name memory leak in pnp_alloc_dev()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nPNP: fix name memory leak in pnp_alloc_dev()\n\nAfter commit 1fa5ae857bb1 (\"driver core: get rid of struct device's\nbus_id string array\"), the name of device is allocated dynamically,\nmove dev_set_name() after pnp_add_id() to avoid memory leak."
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