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    "cveMetadata": {
        "cveId": "CVE-2022-50500",
        "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
        "state": "PUBLISHED",
        "assignerShortName": "Linux",
        "dateReserved": "2025-10-04T15:39:19.464Z",
        "datePublished": "2025-10-04T15:43:50.792Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-05-11T19:20:39.281Z"
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                    "lang": "en",
                    "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetdevsim: fix memory leak in nsim_drv_probe() when nsim_dev_resources_register() failed\n\nIf some items in nsim_dev_resources_register() fail, memory leak will\noccur. The following is the memory leak information.\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff888074c02600 (size 128):\n  comm \"echo\", pid 8159, jiffies 4294945184 (age 493.530s)\n  hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n    40 47 ea 89 ff ff ff ff 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  @G..............\n    ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  ................\n  backtrace:\n    [<0000000011a31c98>] kmalloc_trace+0x22/0x60\n    [<0000000027384c69>] devl_resource_register+0x144/0x4e0\n    [<00000000a16db248>] nsim_drv_probe+0x37a/0x1260\n    [<000000007d1f448c>] really_probe+0x20b/0xb10\n    [<00000000c416848a>] __driver_probe_device+0x1b3/0x4a0\n    [<00000000077e0351>] driver_probe_device+0x49/0x140\n    [<0000000054f2465a>] __device_attach_driver+0x18c/0x2a0\n    [<000000008538f359>] bus_for_each_drv+0x151/0x1d0\n    [<0000000038e09747>] __device_attach+0x1c9/0x4e0\n    [<00000000dd86e533>] bus_probe_device+0x1d5/0x280\n    [<00000000839bea35>] device_add+0xae0/0x1cb0\n    [<000000009c2abf46>] new_device_store+0x3b6/0x5f0\n    [<00000000fb823d7f>] bus_attr_store+0x72/0xa0\n    [<000000007acc4295>] sysfs_kf_write+0x106/0x160\n    [<000000005f50cb4d>] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3a8/0x5a0\n    [<0000000075eb41bf>] vfs_write+0x8f0/0xc80"
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                            "version": "37923ed6b8cea94d7d76038e2f72c57a0b45daab",
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                            "status": "affected",
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                    "defaultStatus": "affected",
                    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
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                {
                    "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c4957fe40e2a628b7cceaf4c9bfb5b701774d05"
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                    "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b1da9f7126f05e857da6db24c6a04aa7974d644"
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