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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-50702" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-12-24T10:55:17.831Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:23:50.676Z" 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-2022-50702" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50702.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50702" title: "vdpa_sim: fix possible memory leak in vdpasim_net_init() and vdpasim_blk_init()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvdpa_sim: fix possible memory leak in vdpasim_net_init() and vdpasim_blk_init()\n\nInject fault while probing module, if device_register() fails in\nvdpasim_net_init() or vdpasim_blk_init(), but the refcount of kobject is\nnot decreased to 0, the name allocated in dev_set_name() is leaked.\nFix this by calling put_device(), so that name can be freed in\ncallback function kobject_cleanup().\n\n(vdpa_sim_net)\nunreferenced object 0xffff88807eebc370 (size 16):\n comm \"modprobe\", pid 3848, jiffies 4362982860 (age 18.153s)\n hex dump (first 16 bytes):\n 76 64 70 61 73 69 6d 5f 6e 65 74 00 6b 6b 6b a5 vdpasim_net.kkk.\n backtrace:\n [\u003cffffffff8174f19e\u003e] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x4e/0x150\n [\u003cffffffff81731d53\u003e] kstrdup+0x33/0x60\n [\u003cffffffff83a5d421\u003e] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x41/0x110\n [\u003cffffffff82d87aab\u003e] dev_set_name+0xab/0xe0\n [\u003cffffffff82d91a23\u003e] device_add+0xe3/0x1a80\n [\u003cffffffffa0270013\u003e] 0xffffffffa0270013\n [\u003cffffffff81001c27\u003e] do_one_initcall+0x87/0x2e0\n [\u003cffffffff813739cb\u003e] do_init_module+0x1ab/0x640\n [\u003cffffffff81379d20\u003e] load_module+0x5d00/0x77f0\n [\u003cffffffff8137bc40\u003e] __do_sys_finit_module+0x110/0x1b0\n [\u003cffffffff83c4d505\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80\n [\u003cffffffff83e0006a\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0\n\n(vdpa_sim_blk)\nunreferenced object 0xffff8881070c1250 (size 16):\n comm \"modprobe\", pid 6844, jiffies 4364069319 (age 17.572s)\n hex dump (first 16 bytes):\n 76 64 70 61 73 69 6d 5f 62 6c 6b 00 6b 6b 6b a5 vdpasim_blk.kkk.\n backtrace:\n [\u003cffffffff8174f19e\u003e] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x4e/0x150\n [\u003cffffffff81731d53\u003e] kstrdup+0x33/0x60\n [\u003cffffffff83a5d421\u003e] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x41/0x110\n [\u003cffffffff82d87aab\u003e] dev_set_name+0xab/0xe0\n [\u003cffffffff82d91a23\u003e] device_add+0xe3/0x1a80\n [\u003cffffffffa0220013\u003e] 0xffffffffa0220013\n [\u003cffffffff81001c27\u003e] do_one_initcall+0x87/0x2e0\n [\u003cffffffff813739cb\u003e] do_init_module+0x1ab/0x640\n [\u003cffffffff81379d20\u003e] load_module+0x5d00/0x77f0\n [\u003cffffffff8137bc40\u003e] __do_sys_finit_module+0x110/0x1b0\n [\u003cffffffff83c4d505\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80\n [\u003cffffffff83e0006a\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a3c06ae158dd6fa8336157c31d9234689d068d02","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"586e6fd7d581f987f7d0d2592edf0b26397e783e"},{"version":"a3c06ae158dd6fa8336157c31d9234689d068d02","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5be953e353fe421f2983e1fd37f07fba97edbffc"},{"version":"a3c06ae158dd6fa8336157c31d9234689d068d02","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"337c24d817e28dd454ca22f1063dfad20822426e"},{"version":"a3c06ae158dd6fa8336157c31d9234689d068d02","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"aeca7ff254843d49a8739f07f7dab1341450111d"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.12"},{"version":"5.15.87","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.0.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1.5","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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