# 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-2022-50285"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-15T14:21:21.504Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:24:08.748Z"
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-2022-50285"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50285.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50285"
title: "mm,hugetlb: take hugetlb_lock before decrementing h-\u003eresv_huge_pages"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm,hugetlb: take hugetlb_lock before decrementing h-\u003eresv_huge_pages\n\nThe h-\u003e*_huge_pages counters are protected by the hugetlb_lock, but\nalloc_huge_page has a corner case where it can decrement the counter\noutside of the lock.\n\nThis could lead to a corrupted value of h-\u003eresv_huge_pages, which we have\nobserved on our systems.\n\nTake the hugetlb_lock before decrementing h-\u003eresv_huge_pages to avoid a\npotential race."
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