# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-50451"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-01T11:45:24.652Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-15T12:23:31.929Z"
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-2022-50451"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50451.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50451"
title: "fs/ntfs3: Fix memory leak on ntfs_fill_super() error path"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfs/ntfs3: Fix memory leak on ntfs_fill_super() error path\n\nsyzbot reported kmemleak as below:\n\nBUG: memory leak\nunreferenced object 0xffff8880122f1540 (size 32):\n  comm \"a.out\", pid 6664, jiffies 4294939771 (age 25.500s)\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 ed ff ed ff 00 00 00 00  ................\n  backtrace:\n    [\u003cffffffff81b16052\u003e] ntfs_init_fs_context+0x22/0x1c0\n    [\u003cffffffff8164aaa7\u003e] alloc_fs_context+0x217/0x430\n    [\u003cffffffff81626dd4\u003e] path_mount+0x704/0x1080\n    [\u003cffffffff81627e7c\u003e] __x64_sys_mount+0x18c/0x1d0\n    [\u003cffffffff84593e14\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x34/0xb0\n    [\u003cffffffff84600087\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n\nThis patch fixes this issue by freeing mount options on error path of\nntfs_fill_super()."
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