CVE-2022-50466

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 36/100
Published: 2025-10-01 Modified: 2026-11-05 First seen: 2026-11-05 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local
AC: Low
PR: Low
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: None
I: None
A: High

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/binfmt_elf: Fix memory leak in load_elf_binary() There is a memory leak reported by kmemleak: unreferenced object 0xffff88817104ef80 (size 224): comm "xfs_admin", pid 47165, jiffies 4298708825 (age 1333.476s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 60 a8 b3 00 81 88 ff ff a8 10 5a 00 81 88 ff ff `.........Z..... backtrace: [<ffffffff819171e1>] __alloc_file+0x21/0x250 [<ffffffff81918061>] alloc_empty_file+0x41/0xf0 [<ffffffff81948cda>] path_openat+0xea/0x3d30 [<ffffffff8194ec89>] do_filp_open+0x1b9/0x290 [<ffffffff8192660e>] do_open_execat+0xce/0x5b0 [<ffffffff81926b17>] open_exec+0x27/0x50 [<ffffffff81a69250>] load_elf_binary+0x510/0x3ed0 [<ffffffff81927759>] bprm_execve+0x599/0x1240 [<ffffffff8192a997>] do_execveat_common.isra.0+0x4c7/0x680 [<ffffffff8192b078>] __x64_sys_execve+0x88/0xb0 [<ffffffff83bbf0a5>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 If "interp_elf_ex" fails to allocate memory in load_elf_binary(), the program will take the "out_free_ph" error handing path, resulting in "interpreter" file resource is not released. Fix it by adding an error handing path "out_free_file", which will release the file resource when "interp_elf_ex" failed to allocate memory.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (8)

VendorProductVersion
Linux Linux 0693ffebcfe5ac7b31f63ad54587007f7d96fb7b < 706215300411d48db6b51a5832b872632a84bbc1
Linux Linux 0693ffebcfe5ac7b31f63ad54587007f7d96fb7b < 265b6fb780f57d10449a40e94219b28fa52479cc
Linux Linux 0693ffebcfe5ac7b31f63ad54587007f7d96fb7b < acd9b4914f1c5928c7ae8ebc623d6291eb1a573a
Linux Linux 0693ffebcfe5ac7b31f63ad54587007f7d96fb7b < 594d2a14f2168c09b13b114c3d457aa939403e52
Linux Linux 5.7
linux linux_kernel 5.7 – 5.10.153
linux linux_kernel 6.1
linux linux_kernel 6.1

Bug Bounty Relevance

36 / 100
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

5.5 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.16%
Raw Score 0.001590
Percentile 5.1%
Date 2026-11-14

EPSS Trend

2026-11-14
0.00159
2026-11-13
0.00159
2026-11-12
0.00159
2026-11-10
0.00159
2026-11-09
0.00159
2026-11-08
0.00159
2026-11-07
0.00159
2026-11-06
0.00159
2026-11-05
0.00159

Intelligence Sources

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