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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-50626" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-12-08T01:16:40.754Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:22:29.322Z" 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-2022-50626" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50626.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50626" title: "media: dvb-usb: fix memory leak in dvb_usb_adapter_init()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmedia: dvb-usb: fix memory leak in dvb_usb_adapter_init()\n\nSyzbot reports a memory leak in \"dvb_usb_adapter_init()\".\nThe leak is due to not accounting for and freeing current iteration's\nadapter-\u003epriv in case of an error. Currently if an error occurs,\nit will exit before incrementing \"num_adapters_initalized\",\nwhich is used as a reference counter to free all adap-\u003epriv\nin \"dvb_usb_adapter_exit()\". There are multiple error paths that\ncan exit from before incrementing the counter. Including the\nerror handling paths for \"dvb_usb_adapter_stream_init()\",\n\"dvb_usb_adapter_dvb_init()\" and \"dvb_usb_adapter_frontend_init()\"\nwithin \"dvb_usb_adapter_init()\".\n\nThis means that in case of an error in any of these functions the\ncurrent iteration is not accounted for and the current iteration's\nadap-\u003epriv is not freed.\n\nFix this by freeing the current iteration's adap-\u003epriv in the\n\"stream_init_err:\" label in the error path. The rest of the\n(accounted for) adap-\u003epriv objects are freed in dvb_usb_adapter_exit()\nas expected using the num_adapters_initalized variable.\n\nSyzbot report:\n\nBUG: memory leak\nunreferenced object 0xffff8881172f1a00 (size 512):\n comm \"kworker/0:2\", pid 139, jiffies 4294994873 (age 10.960s)\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................\n 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................\nbacktrace:\n [\u003cffffffff844af012\u003e] dvb_usb_adapter_init drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-init.c:75 [inline]\n [\u003cffffffff844af012\u003e] dvb_usb_init drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-init.c:184 [inline]\n [\u003cffffffff844af012\u003e] dvb_usb_device_init.cold+0x4e5/0x79e drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-init.c:308\n [\u003cffffffff830db21d\u003e] dib0700_probe+0x8d/0x1b0 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dib0700_core.c:883\n [\u003cffffffff82d3fdc7\u003e] usb_probe_interface+0x177/0x370 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396\n [\u003cffffffff8274ab37\u003e] call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:542 [inline]\n [\u003cffffffff8274ab37\u003e] really_probe.part.0+0xe7/0x310 drivers/base/dd.c:621\n [\u003cffffffff8274ae6c\u003e] really_probe drivers/base/dd.c:583 [inline]\n [\u003cffffffff8274ae6c\u003e] __driver_probe_device+0x10c/0x1e0 drivers/base/dd.c:752\n [\u003cffffffff8274af6a\u003e] driver_probe_device+0x2a/0x120 drivers/base/dd.c:782\n [\u003cffffffff8274b786\u003e] __device_attach_driver+0xf6/0x140 drivers/base/dd.c:899\n [\u003cffffffff82747c87\u003e] bus_for_each_drv+0xb7/0x100 drivers/base/bus.c:427\n [\u003cffffffff8274b352\u003e] __device_attach+0x122/0x260 drivers/base/dd.c:970\n [\u003cffffffff827498f6\u003e] bus_probe_device+0xc6/0xe0 drivers/base/bus.c:487\n [\u003cffffffff82745cdb\u003e] device_add+0x5fb/0xdf0 drivers/base/core.c:3405\n [\u003cffffffff82d3d202\u003e] usb_set_configuration+0x8f2/0xb80 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2170\n [\u003cffffffff82d4dbfc\u003e] usb_generic_driver_probe+0x8c/0xc0 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:238\n [\u003cffffffff82d3f49c\u003e] usb_probe_device+0x5c/0x140 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:293\n [\u003cffffffff8274ab37\u003e] call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:542 [inline]\n [\u003cffffffff8274ab37\u003e] really_probe.part.0+0xe7/0x310 drivers/base/dd.c:621\n [\u003cffffffff8274ae6c\u003e] really_probe drivers/base/dd.c:583 [inline]\n [\u003cffffffff8274ae6c\u003e] __driver_probe_device+0x10c/0x1e0 drivers/base/dd.c:752" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4d43e13f723e12734257277cc38497fab1efc605","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"733bc9e226da2a7f43b10031b8ebfc26d89ec4bd"},{"version":"4d43e13f723e12734257277cc38497fab1efc605","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e5a49140035591d13ff57a7537c65217e5af0d15"},{"version":"4d43e13f723e12734257277cc38497fab1efc605","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"21b6b0c9f3796e6917e90db403dae9e74025fc40"},{"version":"4d43e13f723e12734257277cc38497fab1efc605","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"17217737c174883dd975885ab4bee4b00f517239"},{"version":"4d43e13f723e12734257277cc38497fab1efc605","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7d7ab25ead969594df05fb09ee46ca931d46c5c8"},{"version":"4d43e13f723e12734257277cc38497fab1efc605","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d0af6220bb1eed8225a5511de5a3bd386b94afa4"},{"version":"4d43e13f723e12734257277cc38497fab1efc605","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e5d01eb6dc2f699a395d3e731c58a9b3bb4e269f"},{"version":"4d43e13f723e12734257277cc38497fab1efc605","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"93bbf2ed428142aa9a9693721230b28571678bf8"},{"version":"4d43e13f723e12734257277cc38497fab1efc605","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"94d90fb06b94a90c176270d38861bcba34ce377d"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.19"},{"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"}] ## 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