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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-50578" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-10-22T13:23:31.565Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:22:08.143Z" 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-2022-50578" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50578.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50578" title: "class: fix possible memory leak in __class_register()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nclass: fix possible memory leak in __class_register()\n\nIf class_add_groups() returns error, the 'cp-\u003esubsys' need be\nunregister, and the 'cp' need be freed.\n\nWe can not call kset_unregister() here, because the 'cls' will\nbe freed in callback function class_release() and it's also\nfreed in caller's error path, it will cause double free.\n\nSo fix this by calling kobject_del() and kfree_const(name) to\ncleanup kobject. Besides, call kfree() to free the 'cp'.\n\nFault injection test can trigger this:\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff888102fa8190 (size 8):\n comm \"modprobe\", pid 502, jiffies 4294906074 (age 49.296s)\n hex dump (first 8 bytes):\n 70 6b 74 63 64 76 64 00 pktcdvd.\n backtrace:\n [\u003c00000000e7c7703d\u003e] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x1ae/0x320\n [\u003c000000005e4d70bc\u003e] kstrdup+0x3a/0x70\n [\u003c00000000c2e5e85a\u003e] kstrdup_const+0x68/0x80\n [\u003c000000000049a8c7\u003e] kvasprintf_const+0x10b/0x190\n [\u003c0000000029123163\u003e] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x56/0x150\n [\u003c00000000747219c9\u003e] kobject_set_name+0xab/0xe0\n [\u003c0000000005f1ea4e\u003e] __class_register+0x15c/0x49a\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff888037274000 (size 1024):\n comm \"modprobe\", pid 502, jiffies 4294906074 (age 49.296s)\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 00 40 27 37 80 88 ff ff 00 40 27 37 80 88 ff ff .@'7.....@'7....\n 00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 .....N..........\n backtrace:\n [\u003c00000000151f9600\u003e] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x17c/0x2f0\n [\u003c00000000ecf3dd95\u003e] __class_register+0x86/0x49a" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ced6473e7486702f530a49f886b73195e4977734","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4efa5443817c1b6de22d401aeca5b2481e835f8c"},{"version":"ced6473e7486702f530a49f886b73195e4977734","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3bb9c92c27624ad076419a70f2b1a30cd1f8bbbd"},{"version":"ced6473e7486702f530a49f886b73195e4977734","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3e0efc3f3f5e5c73996782f8db69963e501bb878"},{"version":"ced6473e7486702f530a49f886b73195e4977734","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"18a7200646958cf8e1b8a933de08122fc50676cd"},{"version":"ced6473e7486702f530a49f886b73195e4977734","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"417ef049e3fd3b0d2593c1d5ffa3d0d5d0a018a7"},{"version":"ced6473e7486702f530a49f886b73195e4977734","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e764ad5918a099ebeb909ccff83893a714e497e1"},{"version":"ced6473e7486702f530a49f886b73195e4977734","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"abaedb68a769e6bf36836b55a2f49b531c5f3f7b"},{"version":"ced6473e7486702f530a49f886b73195e4977734","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8c3e8a6bdb5253b97ad532570f8b5db5f7a06407"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.10"},{"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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