CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-50451

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-10-01 Modified 2026-08-15 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-10-01
Last modified
2026-08-15
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-401

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: Fix memory leak on ntfs_fill_super() error path syzbot reported kmemleak as below: BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff8880122f1540 (size 32): comm "a.out", pid 6664, jiffies 4294939771 (age 25.500s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ed ff ed ff 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<ffffffff81b16052>] ntfs_init_fs_context+0x22/0x1c0 [<ffffffff8164aaa7>] alloc_fs_context+0x217/0x430 [<ffffffff81626dd4>] path_mount+0x704/0x1080 [<ffffffff81627e7c>] __x64_sys_mount+0x18c/0x1d0 [<ffffffff84593e14>] do_syscall_64+0x34/0xb0 [<ffffffff84600087>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd This patch fixes this issue by freeing mount options on error path of ntfs_fill_super().

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 5.15 < 5.15.87) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.0.17) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.1 < 6.1.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness

References