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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-50566" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-10-22T13:23:23.917Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:21:54.056Z" 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-2022-50566" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50566.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50566" title: "mtd: Fix device name leak when register device failed in add_mtd_device()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmtd: Fix device name leak when register device failed in add_mtd_device()\n\nThere is a kmemleak when register device failed:\n unreferenced object 0xffff888101aab550 (size 8):\n comm \"insmod\", pid 3922, jiffies 4295277753 (age 925.408s)\n hex dump (first 8 bytes):\n 6d 74 64 30 00 88 ff ff mtd0....\n backtrace:\n [\u003c00000000bde26724\u003e] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x4e/0x150\n [\u003c000000003c32b416\u003e] kvasprintf+0xb0/0x130\n [\u003c000000001f7a8f15\u003e] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x2f/0xb0\n [\u003c000000006e781163\u003e] dev_set_name+0xab/0xe0\n [\u003c00000000e30d0c78\u003e] add_mtd_device+0x4bb/0x700\n [\u003c00000000f3d34de7\u003e] mtd_device_parse_register+0x2ac/0x3f0\n [\u003c00000000c0d88488\u003e] 0xffffffffa0238457\n [\u003c00000000b40d0922\u003e] 0xffffffffa02a008f\n [\u003c0000000023d17b9d\u003e] do_one_initcall+0x87/0x2a0\n [\u003c00000000770f6ca6\u003e] do_init_module+0xdf/0x320\n [\u003c000000007b6768fe\u003e] load_module+0x2f98/0x3330\n [\u003c00000000346bed5a\u003e] __do_sys_finit_module+0x113/0x1b0\n [\u003c00000000674c2290\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80\n [\u003c000000004c6a8d97\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0\n\nIf register device failed, should call put_device() to give up the\nreference." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1f24b5a8ecbb2a3c7080f418974d40e3ffedb221","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a75f45afa932bfb24a2603ebcea5efd2e7cdcfd6"},{"version":"1f24b5a8ecbb2a3c7080f418974d40e3ffedb221","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2302e2dc42b1f84f951c725ce742fc21c5a1e151"},{"version":"1f24b5a8ecbb2a3c7080f418974d40e3ffedb221","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"db07fe76df01f40cb897d6e9066b84e46957beb3"},{"version":"1f24b5a8ecbb2a3c7080f418974d40e3ffedb221","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fa0d32ab8407d7481450c664fd0de64f2dae9489"},{"version":"1f24b5a8ecbb2a3c7080f418974d40e3ffedb221","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"330bc5533e8a8ed69cb951d5a8edce9bddb9db21"},{"version":"1f24b5a8ecbb2a3c7080f418974d40e3ffedb221","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"71212d73184845c944ef1b43f092e643e5bde003"},{"version":"1f24b5a8ecbb2a3c7080f418974d40e3ffedb221","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1b172fb05d6315ecec082fd7544a3390e96f0d7e"},{"version":"1f24b5a8ecbb2a3c7080f418974d40e3ffedb221","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bcabe1dc2a344adbb3382930a23e273ba9382277"},{"version":"1f24b5a8ecbb2a3c7080f418974d40e3ffedb221","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"895d68a39481a75c680aa421546931fb11942fa6"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.30","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.30"},{"version":"4.9.337","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.9.*"},{"version":"4.14.303","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.270","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.229","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.163","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.86","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"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"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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