CVE-2022-50088: 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: mm/damon/reclaim: fix potential memory leak in damon_reclaim_init() damon_reclaim_init() allocates a memory chunk for ctx with damon_new_ctx(). When damon_select_ops() fails, ctx is not released, which will lead to a memory leak. We should release the ctx with damon_destroy_ctx() when damon_select_ops() fails to fix the memory leak.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.18, before 5.18.18 (fixed in 5.18.18); from 5.19, before 5.19.2 (fixed in 5.19.2)

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