CVE-2022-50048: 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: netfilter: nf_tables: possible module reference underflow in error path dst->ops is set on when nft_expr_clone() fails, but module refcount has not been bumped yet, therefore nft_expr_destroy() leads to module reference underflow.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: 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 2026-08-04.