# 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-2022-50521"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-07T15:19:15.213Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:21:02.240Z"
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-2022-50521"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50521.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50521"
title: "platform/x86: mxm-wmi: fix memleak in mxm_wmi_call_mx[ds|mx]()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nplatform/x86: mxm-wmi: fix memleak in mxm_wmi_call_mx[ds|mx]()\n\nThe ACPI buffer memory (out.pointer) returned by wmi_evaluate_method()\nis not freed after the call, so it leads to memory leak.\n\nThe method results in ACPI buffer is not used, so just pass NULL to\nwmi_evaluate_method() which fixes the memory leak."
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