CVE-2022-50779

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
24/12/2025
Last modified:
24/12/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> orangefs: Fix kmemleak in orangefs_prepare_debugfs_help_string()<br /> <br /> When insert and remove the orangefs module, then debug_help_string will<br /> be leaked:<br /> <br /> unreferenced object 0xffff8881652ba000 (size 4096):<br /> comm "insmod", pid 1701, jiffies 4294893639 (age 13218.530s)<br /> hex dump (first 32 bytes):<br /> 43 6c 69 65 6e 74 20 44 65 62 75 67 20 4b 65 79 Client Debug Key<br /> 77 6f 72 64 73 20 61 72 65 20 75 6e 6b 6e 6f 77 words are unknow<br /> backtrace:<br /> [] kmalloc_trace+0x27/0xa0<br /> [] orangefs_prepare_debugfs_help_string+0x5e/0x480 [orangefs]<br /> [] _sub_I_65535_1+0x57/0xf70 [crc_itu_t]<br /> [] do_one_initcall+0x87/0x2a0<br /> [] do_init_module+0xdf/0x320<br /> [] load_module+0x2f98/0x3330<br /> [] __do_sys_finit_module+0x113/0x1b0<br /> [] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80<br /> [] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0<br /> <br /> When remove the module, should always free debug_help_string. Should<br /> always free the allocated buffer when change the free_debug_help_string.

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