CVE-2022-50451
Published: Oct 1, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
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: [<ffffffff81b16052>] ntfs_init_fs_context+0x22/0x1c0 [<ffffffff8164aaa7>] alloc_fs_context+0x217/0x430 [<ffffffff81626dd4>] path_mount+0x704/0x1080 [<ffffffff81627e7c>] __x64_sys_mount+0x18c/0x1d0 [<ffffffff84593e14>] do_syscall_64+0x34/0xb0 [<ffffffff84600087>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd This patch fixes this issue by freeing mount options on error path of ntfs_fill_super().
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 4534a70b7056fd4b9a1c6db5a4ce3c98546b291e - < 2dd9ccfb06bcdad30ad92d96c3affa38a458679eaffected 4534a70b7056fd4b9a1c6db5a4ce3c98546b291e - < ff0df7d9cdbb12878155168b5234e99029e5377faffected 4534a70b7056fd4b9a1c6db5a4ce3c98546b291e - < 2600c80ea7b39f987c3fa89287e73d62e322bbbdaffected 4534a70b7056fd4b9a1c6db5a4ce3c98546b291e - < 51e76a232f8c037f1d9e9922edc25b003d5f3414 |
Linux | Linux | affected 5.15unaffected 0 - < 5.15unaffected 5.15.87 - <= 5.15.*unaffected 6.0.17 - <= 6.0.*unaffected 6.1.3 - <= 6.1.*+1 more versions |
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