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        "cveId": "CVE-2022-50473",
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        "state": "PUBLISHED",
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        "dateReserved": "2025-10-04T15:13:33.467Z",
        "datePublished": "2025-10-04T15:16:34.859Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-05-23T15:24:31.068Z"
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                    "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncpufreq: Init completion before kobject_init_and_add()\n\nIn cpufreq_policy_alloc(), it will call uninitialed completion in\ncpufreq_sysfs_release() when kobject_init_and_add() fails. And\nthat will cause a crash such as the following page fault in complete:\n\nBUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffffffffffff8\n[..]\nRIP: 0010:complete+0x98/0x1f0\n[..]\nCall Trace:\n kobject_put+0x1be/0x4c0\n cpufreq_online.cold+0xee/0x1fd\n cpufreq_add_dev+0x183/0x1e0\n subsys_interface_register+0x3f5/0x4e0\n cpufreq_register_driver+0x3b7/0x670\n acpi_cpufreq_init+0x56c/0x1000 [acpi_cpufreq]\n do_one_initcall+0x13d/0x780\n do_init_module+0x1c3/0x630\n load_module+0x6e67/0x73b0\n __do_sys_finit_module+0x181/0x240\n do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd"
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