# 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-2022-50830"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-30T12:10:52.099Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:25:56.572Z"
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-2022-50830"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50830.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50830"
title: "auxdisplay: hd44780: Fix potential memory leak in hd44780_remove()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nauxdisplay: hd44780: Fix potential memory leak in hd44780_remove()\n\nhd44780_probe() allocates a memory chunk for hd with kzalloc() and\nmakes \"lcd-\u003edrvdata-\u003ehd44780\" point to it. When we call hd44780_remove(),\nwe should release all relevant memory and resource. But \"lcd-\u003edrvdata\n-\u003ehd44780\" is not released, which will lead to a memory leak.\n\nWe should release the \"lcd-\u003edrvdata-\u003ehd44780\" in hd44780_remove() to fix\nthe memory leak bug."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"718e05ed92ecac0d9d3954bcc8064527c3ce7565","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8311961a1724bfc64390c539dedc31e067a80315"},{"version":"718e05ed92ecac0d9d3954bcc8064527c3ce7565","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6cd37f8232f5e169a723e1d5fbe3b2139c2ef763"},{"version":"718e05ed92ecac0d9d3954bcc8064527c3ce7565","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5d407911e605702ffcc0e97a6db546592ab27dd0"},{"version":"718e05ed92ecac0d9d3954bcc8064527c3ce7565","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ddf75a86aba2cfb7ec4497e8692b60c8c8fe0ee7"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.11"},{"version":"5.15.100","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.2.*"},{"version":"6.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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