CVE-2022-50391
mm/mempolicy: fix memory leak in set_mempolicy_home_node system call
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th
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.
| Vendor | linux |
| Product | linux |
| Ecosystems | |
| Industries | Technology |
| Published | Sep 18, 2025 |
| Last Updated | May 11, 2026 |
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Affected Versions
Linux / Linux
c6018b4b254971863bd0ad36bb5e7d0fa0f0ddb0 < 4ca0eb6b2f3add8c5daefb726ce57dc95d103d33 c6018b4b254971863bd0ad36bb5e7d0fa0f0ddb0 < 0ce4cc6d269ddc448a825955b495f662f5d9e153 c6018b4b254971863bd0ad36bb5e7d0fa0f0ddb0 < 38ce7c9bdfc228c14d7621ba36d3eebedd9d4f76
Linux / Linux
5.17