Riskcovery

CVE-2022-50748

ipc: mqueue: fix possible memory leak in init_mqueue_fs()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Dec 24, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Dec 24, 2025

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Description

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

ipc: mqueue: fix possible memory leak in init_mqueue_fs()

commit db7cfc380900 ("ipc: Free mq_sysctls if ipc namespace creation failed")

Here's a similar memory leak to the one fixed by the patch above. retire_mq_sysctls need to be called when init_mqueue_fs fails after setup_mq_sysctls.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • dc55e35f9e810f23dd69cfdc91a3d636023f57a2 to before a1f321051e0dcf2415fb94f81fdc5044cad4c1d6Affected
  • dc55e35f9e810f23dd69cfdc91a3d636023f57a2 to before 55b3709c6d68e32cd3fdd2a630b1f4c97d51b17cAffected
  • dc55e35f9e810f23dd69cfdc91a3d636023f57a2 to before c579d60f0d0cd87552f64fdebe68b5d941d20309Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.19Affected
  • before 5.19Not affected
  • 5.19.17 through 5.19.*Not affected
  • 6.0.3 through 6.0.*Not affected
  • 6.1 and laterNot affected

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