CVE-2022-50042: 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: net: genl: fix error path memory leak in policy dumping If construction of the array of policies fails when recording non-first policy we need to unwind. netlink_policy_dump_add_policy() itself also needs fixing as it currently gives up on error without recording the allocated pointer in the pstate pointer.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.10, before 5.10.138 (fixed in 5.10.138); from 5.11, before 5.15.63 (fixed in 5.15.63); from 5.16, before 5.19.4 (fixed in 5.19.4); version 6.0 only

Published 2025-06-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.