# 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-2022-50538"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-07T15:21:04.428Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:21:21.843Z"
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-2022-50538"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50538.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50538"
title: "vme: Fix error not catched in fake_init()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvme: Fix error not catched in fake_init()\n\nIn fake_init(), __root_device_register() is possible to fail but it's\nignored, which can cause unregistering vme_root fail when exit.\n\n general protection fault,\n probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc000000008c\n KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000460-0x0000000000000467]\n RIP: 0010:root_device_unregister+0x26/0x60\n Call Trace:\n  \u003cTASK\u003e\n  __x64_sys_delete_module+0x34f/0x540\n  do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90\n  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n\nReturn error when __root_device_register() fails."
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