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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-50577"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-22T13:23:30.910Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:22:06.984Z"
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-2022-50577"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50577.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50577"
title: "ima: Fix memory leak in __ima_inode_hash()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nima: Fix memory leak in __ima_inode_hash()\n\nCommit f3cc6b25dcc5 (\"ima: always measure and audit files in policy\") lets\nmeasurement or audit happen even if the file digest cannot be calculated.\n\nAs a result, iint-\u003eima_hash could have been allocated despite\nima_collect_measurement() returning an error.\n\nSince ima_hash belongs to a temporary inode metadata structure, declared\nat the beginning of __ima_inode_hash(), just add a kfree() call if\nima_collect_measurement() returns an error different from -ENOMEM (in that\ncase, ima_hash should not have been allocated)."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"280fe8367b0dc45b6ac5e04fad03e16e99540c0c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c4df8cb38f139ed9f4296868c0a6f15a26e8c491"},{"version":"280fe8367b0dc45b6ac5e04fad03e16e99540c0c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f375bcf69f58fd0744c9dfd1b6b891a27301d67b"},{"version":"280fe8367b0dc45b6ac5e04fad03e16e99540c0c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8c1d6a050a0f16e0a9d32eaf53b965c77279c6f8"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.18"},{"version":"6.0.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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