CVE-2022-50316CWE-401

CVE-2022-50316

Medium · published September 15, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
4.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

orangefs: Fix kmemleak in orangefs_sysfs_init()

When insert and remove the orangefs module, there are kobjects memory

leaked as below:

unreferenced object 0xffff88810f95af00 (size 64):

comm "insmod", pid 783, jiffies 4294813439 (age 65.512s)

hex dump (first 32 bytes):

a0 83 af 01 81 88 ff ff 08 af 95 0f 81 88 ff ff ................

08 af 95 0f 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

backtrace:

[<0000000031ab7788>] kmalloc_trace+0x27/0xa0

[<000000005a6e4dfe>] orangefs_sysfs_init+0x42/0x3a0

[<00000000722645ca>] 0xffffffffa02780fe

[<000000004232d9f7>] do_one_initcall+0x87/0x2a0

[<0000000054f22384>] do_init_module+0xdf/0x320

[<000000003263bdea>] load_module+0x2f98/0x3330

[<0000000052cd4153>] __do_sys_finit_module+0x113/0x1b0

[<00000000250ae02b>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80

[<00000000f11c03c7>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

unreferenced object 0xffff88810f95ae80 (size 64):

comm "insmod", pid 783, jiffies 4294813439 (age 65.512s)

hex dump (first 32 bytes):

c8 90 0f 02 81 88 ff ff 88 ae 95 0f 81 88 ff ff ................

88 ae 95 0f 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

backtrace:

[<0000000031ab7788>] kmalloc_trace+0x27/0xa0

[<000000001a4841fa>] orangefs_sysfs_init+0xc7/0x3a0

[<00000000722645ca>] 0xffffffffa02780fe

[<000000004232d9f7>] do_one_initcall+0x87/0x2a0

[<0000000054f22384>] do_init_module+0xdf/0x320

[<000000003263bdea>] load_module+0x2f98/0x3330

[<0000000052cd4153>] __do_sys_finit_module+0x113/0x1b0

[<00000000250ae02b>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80

[<00000000f11c03c7>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

unreferenced object 0xffff88810f95ae00 (size 64):

comm "insmod", pid 783, jiffies 4294813440 (age 65.511s)

hex dump (first 32 bytes):

60 87 a1 00 81 88 ff ff 08 ae 95 0f 81 88 ff ff `...............

08 ae 95 0f 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

backtrace:

[<0000000031ab7788>] kmalloc_trace+0x27/0xa0

[<000000005915e797>] orangefs_sysfs_init+0x12b/0x3a0

[<00000000722645ca>] 0xffffffffa02780fe

[<000000004232d9f7>] do_one_initcall+0x87/0x2a0

[<0000000054f22384>] do_init_module+0xdf/0x320

[<000000003263bdea>] load_module+0x2f98/0x3330

[<0000000052cd4153>] __do_sys_finit_module+0x113/0x1b0

[<00000000250ae02b>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80

[<00000000f11c03c7>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

unreferenced object 0xffff88810f95ad80 (size 64):

comm "insmod", pid 783, jiffies 4294813440 (age 65.511s)

hex dump (first 32 bytes):

78 90 0f 02 81 88 ff ff 88 ad 95 0f 81 88 ff ff x...............

88 ad 95 0f 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

backtrace:

[<0000000031ab7788>] kmalloc_trace+0x27/0xa0

[<000000007a14eb35>] orangefs_sysfs_init+0x1ac/0x3a0

[<00000000722645ca>] 0xffffffffa02780fe

[<000000004232d9f7>] do_one_initcall+0x87/0x2a0

[<0000000054f22384>] do_init_module+0xdf/0x320

[<000000003263bdea>] load_module+0x2f98/0x3330

[<0000000052cd4153>] __do_sys_finit_module+0x113/0x1b0

[<00000000250ae02b>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80

[<00000000f11c03c7>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

unreferenced object 0xffff88810f95ac00 (size 64):

comm "insmod", pid 783, jiffies 4294813440 (age 65.531s)

hex dump (first 32 bytes):

e0 ff 67 02 81 88 ff ff 08 ac 95 0f 81 88 ff ff ..g.............

08 ac 95 0f 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

backtrace:

[<0000000031ab7788>] kmalloc_trace+0x27/0xa0

[<000000001f38adcb>] orangefs_sysfs_init+0x291/0x3a0

[<00000000722645ca>] 0xffffffffa02780fe

[<000000004232d9f7>] do_one_initcall+0x87/0x2a0

[<0000000054f22384>] do_init_module+0xdf/0x320

[<000000003263bdea>] load_module+0x2f98/0x3330

[<0000000052cd4153>] __do_sys_finit_module+0x113/0x1b0

[<00000000250ae02b>] do_syscall_64+0x35/

---truncated---

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00157 · 4.5th percentile
Weakness
CWE-401 · Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
Published
2025-09-15T19:15Z
Affected products (2)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 4.6, < 6.0.166.0.16
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.1, < 6.1.26.1.2
References (3)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 SEP 14:48Z
    orangefs: Fix kmemleak in orangefs_sysfs_init()
    cvelistv5