CVE-2022-49550: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: provide block_invalidate_folio to fix memory leak The ntfs3 filesystem lacks the 'invalidate_folio' method and it causes memory leak. If you write to the filesystem and then unmount it, the cached written data are not freed and they are permanently leaked.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.18, before 5.18.3 (fixed in 5.18.3)

Published 2025-02-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.