# 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-2022-50499"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-04T15:43:50.064Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:24:34.965Z"
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-2022-50499"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50499.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50499"
title: "media: dvb-core: Fix double free in dvb_register_device()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmedia: dvb-core: Fix double free in dvb_register_device()\n\nIn function dvb_register_device() -\u003e dvb_register_media_device() -\u003e\ndvb_create_media_entity(), dvb-\u003eentity is allocated and initialized. If\nthe initialization fails, it frees the dvb-\u003eentity, and return an error\ncode. The caller takes the error code and handles the error by calling\ndvb_media_device_free(), which unregisters the entity and frees the\nfield again if it is not NULL. As dvb-\u003eentity may not NULLed in\ndvb_create_media_entity() when the allocation of dvbdev-\u003epad fails, a\ndouble free may occur. This may also cause an Use After free in\nmedia_device_unregister_entity().\n\nFix this by storing NULL to dvb-\u003eentity when it is freed."
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