Skip to content
CVE Tracker
  • Newest CVEsPage
  • Recently added to KEVPage
  • Rising exploitation (EPSS)Page
  • Weekly digestPage
  • StatisticsPage
  • WatchlistPage
  • API documentationPage
  • MCP serverPage
  • Data sourcesPage
  • ChangelogPage
  • AboutPage
  • How it's builtPage
Back

CVE-2022-50140

memstick/ms_block: Fix a memory leak

Medium5.5EPSS 0.19%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
Linux

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: memstick/ms_block: Fix a memory leak 'erased_blocks_bitmap' is never freed. As it is allocated at the same time as 'used_blocks_bitmap', it is likely that it should be freed also at the same time. Add the corresponding bitmap_free() in msb_data_clear().

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2022-50140, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Analyzed3.1Medium5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
0.19% · top 91% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
Loading the EPSS history…

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.

Weakness

Affected products

  • Linux · Linux

    • affected 0ab30494bc4f3bc1ea4659b7c5d97c5218554a63 – < efd675246aec045507b9425c67b548cc2d782d8f
    • affected 0ab30494bc4f3bc1ea4659b7c5d97c5218554a63 – < 37958980eb4cd71ae594ace093c11b6a91e165e8
    • affected 0ab30494bc4f3bc1ea4659b7c5d97c5218554a63 – < 9d8b911fe3c3ed788c66edba7c90e32a4a7a5f53
    • affected 0ab30494bc4f3bc1ea4659b7c5d97c5218554a63 – < 9260a154b3b5e387dbceec7c0ac441470646bc6f
    • affected 0ab30494bc4f3bc1ea4659b7c5d97c5218554a63 – < 961d7d12080fe70847f944d656e36cd0dd0214ba
    • affected 0ab30494bc4f3bc1ea4659b7c5d97c5218554a63 – < 16e07966638717416abf45393d6a80a5a1034429
    • affected 0ab30494bc4f3bc1ea4659b7c5d97c5218554a63 – < 39be95d1ff7b44c1e969af72ba9da7332dfcc1da
    • affected 0ab30494bc4f3bc1ea4659b7c5d97c5218554a63 – < 54eb7a55be6779c4d0c25eaf5056498a28595049
  • Linux · Linux

    • affected 3.12
    • unaffected < 3.12
    • unaffected 4.14.291 – ≤ 4.14.*
    • unaffected 4.19.256 – ≤ 4.19.*
    • unaffected 5.4.211 – ≤ 5.4.*
    • unaffected 5.10.137 – ≤ 5.10.*
    • unaffected 5.15.61 – ≤ 5.15.*
    • unaffected 5.18.18 – ≤ 5.18.*
    • unaffected 5.19.2 – ≤ 5.19.*
    • unaffected 6.0 – ≤ *

References (8)

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

Badge for a README or a ticket

CVE-2022-50140 badge
[![CVE-2022-50140](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2022-50140.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2022-50140)

Record last updated .