# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-50500"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-04T15:43:50.792Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:20:39.281Z"
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-2022-50500"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50500.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50500"
title: "netdevsim: fix memory leak in nsim_drv_probe() when nsim_dev_resources_register() failed"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetdevsim: fix memory leak in nsim_drv_probe() when nsim_dev_resources_register() failed\n\nIf some items in nsim_dev_resources_register() fail, memory leak will\noccur. The following is the memory leak information.\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff888074c02600 (size 128):\n  comm \"echo\", pid 8159, jiffies 4294945184 (age 493.530s)\n  hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n    40 47 ea 89 ff ff ff ff 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  @G..............\n    ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  ................\n  backtrace:\n    [\u003c0000000011a31c98\u003e] kmalloc_trace+0x22/0x60\n    [\u003c0000000027384c69\u003e] devl_resource_register+0x144/0x4e0\n    [\u003c00000000a16db248\u003e] nsim_drv_probe+0x37a/0x1260\n    [\u003c000000007d1f448c\u003e] really_probe+0x20b/0xb10\n    [\u003c00000000c416848a\u003e] __driver_probe_device+0x1b3/0x4a0\n    [\u003c00000000077e0351\u003e] driver_probe_device+0x49/0x140\n    [\u003c0000000054f2465a\u003e] __device_attach_driver+0x18c/0x2a0\n    [\u003c000000008538f359\u003e] bus_for_each_drv+0x151/0x1d0\n    [\u003c0000000038e09747\u003e] __device_attach+0x1c9/0x4e0\n    [\u003c00000000dd86e533\u003e] bus_probe_device+0x1d5/0x280\n    [\u003c00000000839bea35\u003e] device_add+0xae0/0x1cb0\n    [\u003c000000009c2abf46\u003e] new_device_store+0x3b6/0x5f0\n    [\u003c00000000fb823d7f\u003e] bus_attr_store+0x72/0xa0\n    [\u003c000000007acc4295\u003e] sysfs_kf_write+0x106/0x160\n    [\u003c000000005f50cb4d\u003e] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3a8/0x5a0\n    [\u003c0000000075eb41bf\u003e] vfs_write+0x8f0/0xc80"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"37923ed6b8cea94d7d76038e2f72c57a0b45daab","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7c4957fe40e2a628b7cceaf4c9bfb5b701774d05"},{"version":"37923ed6b8cea94d7d76038e2f72c57a0b45daab","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6b1da9f7126f05e857da6db24c6a04aa7974d644"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.17"},{"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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