# 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-2022-50477"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-04T15:16:37.654Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:20:15.051Z"
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-2022-50477"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50477.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50477"
title: "rtc: class: Fix potential memleak in devm_rtc_allocate_device()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nrtc: class: Fix potential memleak in devm_rtc_allocate_device()\n\ndevm_rtc_allocate_device() will alloc a rtc_device first, and then run\ndev_set_name(). If dev_set_name() failed, the rtc_device will memleak.\nMove devm_add_action_or_reset() in front of dev_set_name() to prevent\nmemleak.\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff888110a53000 (size 2048):\n  comm \"python3\", pid 470, jiffies 4296078308 (age 58.882s)\n  hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 30 a5 10 81 88 ff ff  .........0......\n    08 30 a5 10 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  .0..............\n  backtrace:\n    [\u003c000000004aac0364\u003e] kmalloc_trace+0x21/0x110\n    [\u003c000000000ff02202\u003e] devm_rtc_allocate_device+0xd4/0x400\n    [\u003c000000001bdf5639\u003e] devm_rtc_device_register+0x1a/0x80\n    [\u003c00000000351bf81c\u003e] rx4581_probe+0xdd/0x110 [rtc_rx4581]\n    [\u003c00000000f0eba0ae\u003e] spi_probe+0xde/0x130\n    [\u003c00000000bff89ee8\u003e] really_probe+0x175/0x3f0\n    [\u003c00000000128e8d84\u003e] __driver_probe_device+0xe6/0x170\n    [\u003c00000000ee5bf913\u003e] device_driver_attach+0x32/0x80\n    [\u003c00000000f3f28f92\u003e] bind_store+0x10b/0x1a0\n    [\u003c000000009ff812d8\u003e] drv_attr_store+0x49/0x70\n    [\u003c000000008139c323\u003e] sysfs_kf_write+0x8d/0xb0\n    [\u003c00000000b6146e01\u003e] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x214/0x2d0\n    [\u003c00000000ecbe3895\u003e] vfs_write+0x61a/0x7d0\n    [\u003c00000000aa2196ea\u003e] ksys_write+0xc8/0x190\n    [\u003c0000000046a600f5\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x37/0x90\n    [\u003c00000000541a336f\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"24d23181e43d72ca692a479e70dfe5b0b5dd33f1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0bcfc8fd3e596994f527b46730579428b3a4fa5f"},{"version":"24d23181e43d72ca692a479e70dfe5b0b5dd33f1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"59457a0f079eae19aaf322b3cc1c8ba66f55c5f3"},{"version":"24d23181e43d72ca692a479e70dfe5b0b5dd33f1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"60da73808298ff2cfa9f165d55eb3d7aa7078601"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"},{"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"}]

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