{"cve":"CVE-2022-50462","nvd":{"published":"2025-10-01T12:15:39.690","modified":"2026-06-17T05:23:36.183","status":"Analyzed","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nMIPS: vpe-mt: fix possible memory leak while module exiting\n\nAfer commit 1fa5ae857bb1 (\"driver core: get rid of struct device's\nbus_id string array\"), the name of device is allocated dynamically,\nit need be freed when module exiting, call put_device() to give up\nreference, so that it can be freed in kobject_cleanup() when the\nrefcount hit to 0. The vpe_device is static, so remove kfree() from\nvpe_device_release().","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":5.5},"cwes":["CWE-401"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/170e9913c2ed5cfc37c0adf0fdbd368d2d8d8168","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/48d42f4464d713fbdd79f334fdcd6e5be534cc67","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5822e8cc84ee37338ab0bdc3124f6eec04dc232d","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/851ae5640875f06494e40002cd503b11a634c6fb","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d180e0bb21c57bd6cca2adeb672d3b522e910b5"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:11:26.888974865+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2022-50462","score":0.00163,"percentile":0.05509,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}