CVE-2022-50465: 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: ext4: fix leaking uninitialized memory in fast-commit journal When space at the end of fast-commit journal blocks is unused, make sure to zero it out so that uninitialized memory is not leaked to disk.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.10, before 5.10.163 (fixed in 5.10.163); from 5.11, before 5.15.87 (fixed in 5.15.87); from 5.16, before 6.0.18 (fixed in 6.0.18); from 6.1, before 6.1.4 (fixed in 6.1.4)

Published 2025-10-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.