CVE-2022-50622 (GCVE-0-2022-50622)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-08 01:16
Modified
2025-12-23 13:30
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix potential memory leak in ext4_fc_record_modified_inode() As krealloc may return NULL, in this case 'state->fc_modified_inodes' may not be freed by krealloc, but 'state->fc_modified_inodes' already set NULL. Then will lead to 'state->fc_modified_inodes' memory leak.
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Linux Linux Version: 8016e29f4362e285f0f7e38fadc61a5b7bdfdfa2
Version: 8016e29f4362e285f0f7e38fadc61a5b7bdfdfa2
Version: 8016e29f4362e285f0f7e38fadc61a5b7bdfdfa2
Version: 8016e29f4362e285f0f7e38fadc61a5b7bdfdfa2
Version: 8016e29f4362e285f0f7e38fadc61a5b7bdfdfa2
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