# 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-2022-50840"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-30T12:10:59.066Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:26:07.823Z"
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-2022-50840"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50840.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50840"
title: "scsi: snic: Fix possible UAF in snic_tgt_create()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: snic: Fix possible UAF in snic_tgt_create()\n\nSmatch reports a warning as follows:\n\ndrivers/scsi/snic/snic_disc.c:307 snic_tgt_create() warn:\n  '&tgt-\u003elist' not removed from list\n\nIf device_add() fails in snic_tgt_create(), tgt will be freed, but\ntgt-\u003elist will not be removed from snic-\u003edisc.tgt_list, then list traversal\nmay cause UAF.\n\nRemove from snic-\u003edisc.tgt_list before free()."
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