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MEDIUMCVSS 5.5

CVE-2022-50451

CVE-2022-50451 updated by NVD

Modified
2026-08-17
Sources
nvd

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: Fix memory leak on ntfs_fill_super() error path syzbot reported kmemleak as below: BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff8880122f1540 (size 32): comm "a.out", pid 6664, jiffies 4294939771 (age 25.500s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ed ff ed ff 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [ ] ntfs_init_fs_context+0x22/0x1c0 [ ] alloc_fs_context+0x217/0x430 [ ] path_mount+0x704/0x1080 [ ] __x64_sys_mount+0x18c/0x1d0 [ ] do_syscall_64+0x34/0xb0 [ ] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd This patch fixes this issue by freeing mount options on error path of ntfs_fill_super().

References

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