# 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-2022-50473"
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"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50473"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50473.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50473"
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"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4ebe36c94aed95de71a8ce6a6762226d31c938ee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3cdd91a9163248935720927531066b74f57aa43b"},{"version":"4ebe36c94aed95de71a8ce6a6762226d31c938ee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e379b88a8f8cffc99b318e028705ed9e3da0e1e0"},{"version":"4ebe36c94aed95de71a8ce6a6762226d31c938ee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8fb4c98f20dfca1237de2e3dfdbe78d156784fd3"},{"version":"4ebe36c94aed95de71a8ce6a6762226d31c938ee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d88540acfc7a17079021d866de914112c396edb1"},{"version":"4ebe36c94aed95de71a8ce6a6762226d31c938ee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e7c0c943ed675b66d4bbb16c51c6a3bb58da047e"},{"version":"4ebe36c94aed95de71a8ce6a6762226d31c938ee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5c51054896bcce1d33d39fead2af73fec24f40b6"},{"version":"e977b1477a6725868302957e6b5c330220391797","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.1.6","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.2"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.2"},{"version":"5.4.229","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.163","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.87","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.0.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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