# 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-2022-50288"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-15T14:21:24.427Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:16:25.955Z"
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-2022-50288"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50288.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50288"
title: "qlcnic: prevent -\u003edcb use-after-free on qlcnic_dcb_enable() failure"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nqlcnic: prevent -\u003edcb use-after-free on qlcnic_dcb_enable() failure\n\nadapter-\u003edcb would get silently freed inside qlcnic_dcb_enable() in\ncase qlcnic_dcb_attach() would return an error, which always happens\nunder OOM conditions. This would lead to use-after-free because both\nof the existing callers invoke qlcnic_dcb_get_info() on the obtained\npointer, which is potentially freed at that point.\n\nPropagate errors from qlcnic_dcb_enable(), and instead free the dcb\npointer at callsite using qlcnic_dcb_free(). This also removes the now\nunused qlcnic_clear_dcb_ops() helper, which was a simple wrapper around\nkfree() also causing memory leaks for partially initialized dcb.\n\nFound by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with the SVACE\nstatic analysis tool."
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