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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-50779" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-12-24T13:06:07.873Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:25:22.956Z" 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-2022-50779" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50779.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50779" title: "orangefs: Fix kmemleak in orangefs_prepare_debugfs_help_string()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\norangefs: Fix kmemleak in orangefs_prepare_debugfs_help_string()\n\nWhen insert and remove the orangefs module, then debug_help_string will\nbe leaked:\n\n unreferenced object 0xffff8881652ba000 (size 4096):\n comm \"insmod\", pid 1701, jiffies 4294893639 (age 13218.530s)\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 43 6c 69 65 6e 74 20 44 65 62 75 67 20 4b 65 79 Client Debug Key\n 77 6f 72 64 73 20 61 72 65 20 75 6e 6b 6e 6f 77 words are unknow\n backtrace:\n [\u003c0000000004e6f8e3\u003e] kmalloc_trace+0x27/0xa0\n [\u003c0000000006f75d85\u003e] orangefs_prepare_debugfs_help_string+0x5e/0x480 [orangefs]\n [\u003c0000000091270a2a\u003e] _sub_I_65535_1+0x57/0xf70 [crc_itu_t]\n [\u003c000000004b1ee1a3\u003e] do_one_initcall+0x87/0x2a0\n [\u003c000000001d0614ae\u003e] do_init_module+0xdf/0x320\n [\u003c00000000efef068c\u003e] load_module+0x2f98/0x3330\n [\u003c000000006533b44d\u003e] __do_sys_finit_module+0x113/0x1b0\n [\u003c00000000a0da6f99\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80\n [\u003c000000007790b19b\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0\n\nWhen remove the module, should always free debug_help_string. Should\nalways free the allocated buffer when change the free_debug_help_string." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"dc0336214eb07ee9de2a41dd4c81c744ffa419ac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"44d3eac26a5e5268d11cc342dc202b0d31505c0a"},{"version":"dc0336214eb07ee9de2a41dd4c81c744ffa419ac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f2b8a6aac561a49fe02c99683c40a8b87a9f68fc"},{"version":"dc0336214eb07ee9de2a41dd4c81c744ffa419ac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ba9d3b9cec20957fd86bb1bf525b4ea8b64b2dea"},{"version":"dc0336214eb07ee9de2a41dd4c81c744ffa419ac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2e7c09121064df93c58bbc49d3d0f608d3f584bd"},{"version":"dc0336214eb07ee9de2a41dd4c81c744ffa419ac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b8affa0c6405ee968dcb6030bee2cf719a464752"},{"version":"dc0336214eb07ee9de2a41dd4c81c744ffa419ac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"39529b79b023713d4f2d3479dc0ca43ba99df726"},{"version":"dc0336214eb07ee9de2a41dd4c81c744ffa419ac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3fc221d9a16339a913a0341d3efc7fef339073e1"},{"version":"dc0336214eb07ee9de2a41dd4c81c744ffa419ac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"19be31668552a198e887762e25bdcc560800ecb4"},{"version":"dc0336214eb07ee9de2a41dd4c81c744ffa419ac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d23417a5bf3a3afc55de5442eb46e1e60458b0a1"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.9"},{"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"}] ## 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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