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  "record": {
    "id": "CVE-2022-50473",
    "sourceURL": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50473",
    "idYear": 2022,
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
    "publishedAt": "2025-10-04T15:16:34.859Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-23T15:24:31.068Z",
    "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"
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    "facts": {
      "title": "cpufreq: Init completion before kobject_init_and_add()",
      "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncpufreq: Init completion before kobject_init_and_add()\n\nIn cpufreq_policy_alloc(), it will call uninitialed completion in\ncpufreq_sysfs_release() when kobject_init_and_add() fails. And\nthat will cause a crash such as the following page fault in complete:\n\nBUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffffffffffff8\n[..]\nRIP: 0010:complete+0x98/0x1f0\n[..]\nCall Trace:\n kobject_put+0x1be/0x4c0\n cpufreq_online.cold+0xee/0x1fd\n cpufreq_add_dev+0x183/0x1e0\n subsys_interface_register+0x3f5/0x4e0\n cpufreq_register_driver+0x3b7/0x670\n acpi_cpufreq_init+0x56c/0x1000 [acpi_cpufreq]\n do_one_initcall+0x13d/0x780\n do_init_module+0x1c3/0x630\n load_module+0x6e67/0x73b0\n __do_sys_finit_module+0x181/0x240\n do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd",
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