VYPR
Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Oct 1, 2025· Updated Aug 15, 2026

CVE-2022-50451

CVE-2022-50451

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: [] ntfs_init_fs_context+0x22/0x1c0 [] alloc_fs_context+0x217/0x430 [] path_mount+0x704/0x1080 [] __x64_sys_mount+0x18c/0x1d0 [] do_syscall_64+0x34/0xb0 [] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

This patch fixes this issue by freeing mount options on error path of ntfs_fill_super().

AI Insight

LLM-synthesized narrative grounded in this CVE's description and references.

Affected products

4
  • Linux/Kernel3 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=5.15,<5.15.87
    • (no CPE)
    • (no CPE)range: 5.15
  • osv-coords
    Range: < 5.15.87

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

4

News mentions

0

No linked articles in our index yet.