# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-50660"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-09T01:29:08.387Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:23:09.957Z"
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-2022-50660"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50660.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50660"
title: "wifi: ipw2200: fix memory leak in ipw_wdev_init()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: ipw2200: fix memory leak in ipw_wdev_init()\n\nIn the error path of ipw_wdev_init(), exception value is returned, and\nthe memory applied for in the function is not released. Also the memory\nis not released in ipw_pci_probe(). As a result, memory leakage occurs.\nSo memory release needs to be added to the error path of ipw_wdev_init()."
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