CVE-2022-50512: 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 potential memory leak in ext4_fc_record_regions() As krealloc may return NULL, in this case 'state->fc_regions' may not be freed by krealloc, but 'state->fc_regions' already set NULL. Then will lead to 'state->fc_regions' memory leak.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.10, before 5.10.150 (fixed in 5.10.150); from 5.11, before 5.15.75 (fixed in 5.15.75); from 5.16, before 5.19.17 (fixed in 5.19.17); from 6.0, before 6.0.3 (fixed in 6.0.3)

Published 2025-10-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.