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CVE-2022-50088 (GCVE-0-2022-50088)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-18 11:02 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:12
VLAI
Title
mm/damon/reclaim: fix potential memory leak in damon_reclaim_init()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/damon/reclaim: fix potential memory leak in damon_reclaim_init() damon_reclaim_init() allocates a memory chunk for ctx with damon_new_ctx(). When damon_select_ops() fails, ctx is not released, which will lead to a memory leak. We should release the ctx with damon_destroy_ctx() when damon_select_ops() fails to fix the memory leak.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 4d69c3457821100a39fa8c6e0c23ed910bb6c29d , < 9d3e9e1e0856f4c905bbb870f16f42ae72477071 (git)
Affected: 4d69c3457821100a39fa8c6e0c23ed910bb6c29d , < 700aa4e11a3c4d2a44d06758db431a013d9e1b61 (git)
Affected: 4d69c3457821100a39fa8c6e0c23ed910bb6c29d , < 188043c7f4f2bd662f2a55957d684fffa543e600 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.18
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.18 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.18.18 , ≤ 5.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.19.2 , ≤ 5.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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