# 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-2022-50845"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-30T12:11:02.615Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:26:13.671Z"
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-2022-50845"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50845.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50845"
title: "ext4: fix inode leak in ext4_xattr_inode_create() on an error path"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: fix inode leak in ext4_xattr_inode_create() on an error path\n\nThere is issue as follows when do setxattr with inject fault:\n\n[localhost]# fsck.ext4  -fn  /dev/sda\ne2fsck 1.46.6-rc1 (12-Sep-2022)\nPass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes\nPass 2: Checking directory structure\nPass 3: Checking directory connectivity\nPass 4: Checking reference counts\nUnattached zero-length inode 15.  Clear? no\n\nUnattached inode 15\nConnect to /lost+found? no\n\nPass 5: Checking group summary information\n\n/dev/sda: ********** WARNING: Filesystem still has errors **********\n\n/dev/sda: 15/655360 files (0.0% non-contiguous), 66755/2621440 blocks\n\nThis occurs in 'ext4_xattr_inode_create()'. If 'ext4_mark_inode_dirty()'\nfails, dropping i_nlink of the inode is needed. Or will lead to inode leak."
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