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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-50466"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-01T11:45:37.376Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:20:00.393Z"
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-2022-50466"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50466.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50466"
title: "fs/binfmt_elf: Fix memory leak in load_elf_binary()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfs/binfmt_elf: Fix memory leak in load_elf_binary()\n\nThere is a memory leak reported by kmemleak:\n\n  unreferenced object 0xffff88817104ef80 (size 224):\n    comm \"xfs_admin\", pid 47165, jiffies 4298708825 (age 1333.476s)\n    hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n      00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................\n      60 a8 b3 00 81 88 ff ff a8 10 5a 00 81 88 ff ff  `.........Z.....\n    backtrace:\n      [\u003cffffffff819171e1\u003e] __alloc_file+0x21/0x250\n      [\u003cffffffff81918061\u003e] alloc_empty_file+0x41/0xf0\n      [\u003cffffffff81948cda\u003e] path_openat+0xea/0x3d30\n      [\u003cffffffff8194ec89\u003e] do_filp_open+0x1b9/0x290\n      [\u003cffffffff8192660e\u003e] do_open_execat+0xce/0x5b0\n      [\u003cffffffff81926b17\u003e] open_exec+0x27/0x50\n      [\u003cffffffff81a69250\u003e] load_elf_binary+0x510/0x3ed0\n      [\u003cffffffff81927759\u003e] bprm_execve+0x599/0x1240\n      [\u003cffffffff8192a997\u003e] do_execveat_common.isra.0+0x4c7/0x680\n      [\u003cffffffff8192b078\u003e] __x64_sys_execve+0x88/0xb0\n      [\u003cffffffff83bbf0a5\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80\n\nIf \"interp_elf_ex\" fails to allocate memory in load_elf_binary(),\nthe program will take the \"out_free_ph\" error handing path,\nresulting in \"interpreter\" file resource is not released.\n\nFix it by adding an error handing path \"out_free_file\", which will\nrelease the file resource when \"interp_elf_ex\" failed to allocate\nmemory."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0693ffebcfe5ac7b31f63ad54587007f7d96fb7b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"706215300411d48db6b51a5832b872632a84bbc1"},{"version":"0693ffebcfe5ac7b31f63ad54587007f7d96fb7b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"265b6fb780f57d10449a40e94219b28fa52479cc"},{"version":"0693ffebcfe5ac7b31f63ad54587007f7d96fb7b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"acd9b4914f1c5928c7ae8ebc623d6291eb1a573a"},{"version":"0693ffebcfe5ac7b31f63ad54587007f7d96fb7b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"594d2a14f2168c09b13b114c3d457aa939403e52"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.7"},{"version":"5.10.153","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.77","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.0.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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