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CVE-2022-50391

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.5 Published: 2025-09-18 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/mempolicy: fix memory leak in set_mempolicy_home_node system call When encountering any vma in the range with policy other than MPOL_BIND or MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY, an error is returned without issuing a mpol_put on the policy just allocated with mpol_dup(). This allows arbitrary users to leak kernel memory.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-401, CWE-401

References