# 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-2022-50772"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-24T13:06:01.170Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:25:14.704Z"
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-2022-50772"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50772.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50772"
title: "netdevsim: fix memory leak in nsim_bus_dev_new()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetdevsim: fix memory leak in nsim_bus_dev_new()\n\nIf device_register() failed in nsim_bus_dev_new(), the value of reference\nin nsim_bus_dev-\u003edev is 1. obj-\u003ename in nsim_bus_dev-\u003edev will not be\nreleased.\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff88810352c480 (size 16):\n  comm \"echo\", pid 5691, jiffies 4294945921 (age 133.270s)\n  hex dump (first 16 bytes):\n    6e 65 74 64 65 76 73 69 6d 31 00 00 00 00 00 00  netdevsim1......\n  backtrace:\n    [\u003c000000005e2e5e26\u003e] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x3a/0xb0\n    [\u003c0000000094ca4fc8\u003e] kvasprintf+0xc3/0x160\n    [\u003c00000000aad09bcc\u003e] kvasprintf_const+0x55/0x180\n    [\u003c000000009bac868d\u003e] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x56/0x150\n    [\u003c000000007c1a5d70\u003e] dev_set_name+0xbb/0xf0\n    [\u003c00000000ad0d126b\u003e] device_add+0x1f8/0x1cb0\n    [\u003c00000000c222ae24\u003e] new_device_store+0x3b6/0x5e0\n    [\u003c0000000043593421\u003e] bus_attr_store+0x72/0xa0\n    [\u003c00000000cbb1833a\u003e] sysfs_kf_write+0x106/0x160\n    [\u003c00000000d0dedb8a\u003e] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3a8/0x5a0\n    [\u003c00000000770b66e2\u003e] vfs_write+0x8f0/0xc80\n    [\u003c0000000078bb39be\u003e] ksys_write+0x106/0x210\n    [\u003c00000000005e55a4\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80\n    [\u003c00000000eaa40bbc\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"40e4fe4ce115c409c3e2fbb247085103ef1cc755","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"77579e4065295071fbd9662f03430dca5b50b086"},{"version":"40e4fe4ce115c409c3e2fbb247085103ef1cc755","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cf2010aa1c739bab067cbc90b690d28eaa0b47da"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.2"},{"version":"6.0.7","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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