# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-50639"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-09T00:00:12.576Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:22:44.249Z"
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-2022-50639"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50639.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50639"
title: "io-wq: Fix memory leak in worker creation"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nio-wq: Fix memory leak in worker creation\n\nIf the CPU mask allocation for a node fails, then the memory allocated for\nthe 'io_wqe' struct of the current node doesn't get freed on the error\nhandling path, since it has not yet been added to the 'wqes' array.\n\nThis was spotted when fuzzing v6.1-rc1 with Syzkaller:\nBUG: memory leak\nunreferenced object 0xffff8880093d5000 (size 1024):\n  comm \"syz-executor.2\", pid 7701, jiffies 4295048595 (age 13.900s)\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  ................\n  backtrace:\n    [\u003c00000000cb463369\u003e] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x18e/0x720\n    [\u003c00000000147a3f9c\u003e] kmalloc_node_trace+0x2a/0x130\n    [\u003c000000004e107011\u003e] io_wq_create+0x7b9/0xdc0\n    [\u003c00000000c38b2018\u003e] io_uring_alloc_task_context+0x31e/0x59d\n    [\u003c00000000867399da\u003e] __io_uring_add_tctx_node.cold+0x19/0x1ba\n    [\u003c000000007e0e7a79\u003e] io_uring_setup.cold+0x1b80/0x1dce\n    [\u003c00000000b545e9f6\u003e] __x64_sys_io_uring_setup+0x5d/0x80\n    [\u003c000000008a8a7508\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x5d/0x90\n    [\u003c000000004ac08bec\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0e03496d1967abf1ebb151a24318c07d07f41f7f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b6e2c54be37d5eb4f6666e6aa59cd0581c7ffc3c"},{"version":"0e03496d1967abf1ebb151a24318c07d07f41f7f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ed981911a7c90a604f4a2bee908ab07e3b786aca"},{"version":"0e03496d1967abf1ebb151a24318c07d07f41f7f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"996d3efeb091c503afd3ee6b5e20eabf446fd955"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.14"},{"version":"5.15.75","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.0.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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