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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-50342" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-09-16T16:11:21.665Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:17:34.790Z" 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-2022-50342" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50342.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50342" title: "floppy: Fix memory leak in do_floppy_init()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfloppy: Fix memory leak in do_floppy_init()\n\nA memory leak was reported when floppy_alloc_disk() failed in\ndo_floppy_init().\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff888115ed25a0 (size 8):\n comm \"modprobe\", pid 727, jiffies 4295051278 (age 25.529s)\n hex dump (first 8 bytes):\n 00 ac 67 5b 81 88 ff ff ..g[....\n backtrace:\n [\u003c000000007f457abb\u003e] __kmalloc_node+0x4c/0xc0\n [\u003c00000000a87bfa9e\u003e] blk_mq_realloc_tag_set_tags.part.0+0x6f/0x180\n [\u003c000000006f02e8b1\u003e] blk_mq_alloc_tag_set+0x573/0x1130\n [\u003c0000000066007fd7\u003e] 0xffffffffc06b8b08\n [\u003c0000000081f5ac40\u003e] do_one_initcall+0xd0/0x4f0\n [\u003c00000000e26d04ee\u003e] do_init_module+0x1a4/0x680\n [\u003c000000001bb22407\u003e] load_module+0x6249/0x7110\n [\u003c00000000ad31ac4d\u003e] __do_sys_finit_module+0x140/0x200\n [\u003c000000007bddca46\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80\n [\u003c00000000b5afec39\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0\nunreferenced object 0xffff88810fc30540 (size 32):\n comm \"modprobe\", pid 727, jiffies 4295051278 (age 25.529s)\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................\n 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................\n backtrace:\n [\u003c000000007f457abb\u003e] __kmalloc_node+0x4c/0xc0\n [\u003c000000006b91eab4\u003e] blk_mq_alloc_tag_set+0x393/0x1130\n [\u003c0000000066007fd7\u003e] 0xffffffffc06b8b08\n [\u003c0000000081f5ac40\u003e] do_one_initcall+0xd0/0x4f0\n [\u003c00000000e26d04ee\u003e] do_init_module+0x1a4/0x680\n [\u003c000000001bb22407\u003e] load_module+0x6249/0x7110\n [\u003c00000000ad31ac4d\u003e] __do_sys_finit_module+0x140/0x200\n [\u003c000000007bddca46\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80\n [\u003c00000000b5afec39\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0\n\nIf the floppy_alloc_disk() failed, disks of current drive will not be set,\nthus the lastest allocated set-\u003etag cannot be freed in the error handling\npath. A simple call graph shown as below:\n\n floppy_module_init()\n floppy_init()\n do_floppy_init()\n for (drive = 0; drive \u003c N_DRIVE; drive++)\n blk_mq_alloc_tag_set()\n blk_mq_alloc_tag_set_tags()\n blk_mq_realloc_tag_set_tags() # set-\u003etag allocated\n floppy_alloc_disk()\n blk_mq_alloc_disk() # error occurred, disks failed to allocated\n\n -\u003eout_put_disk:\n for (drive = 0; drive \u003c N_DRIVE; drive++)\n if (!disks[drive][0]) # the last disks is not set and loop break\n break;\n blk_mq_free_tag_set() # the latest allocated set-\u003etag leaked\n\nFix this problem by free the set-\u003etag of current drive before jump to\nerror handling path.\n\n[efremov: added stable list, changed title]" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"302cfee150291c6cd85b1ca197d062d0b423d09c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f36d8c8651506aea5f09899f5356ece5d1384f50"},{"version":"302cfee150291c6cd85b1ca197d062d0b423d09c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"75d8c8851a4da0190c2480e84315b5fd3d0356c5"},{"version":"302cfee150291c6cd85b1ca197d062d0b423d09c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"55b3c66a0d441cd37154ae95e44d0b82ccfd580e"},{"version":"302cfee150291c6cd85b1ca197d062d0b423d09c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f8ace2e304c5dd8a7328db9cd2b8a4b1b98d83ec"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.11"},{"version":"5.15.86","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.0.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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