CVE-2022-50872 json
ARM: OMAP2+: Fix memory leak in realtime_counter_init()
published 2025-12-30 10 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-55826
- cvss
- —
- not scored
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.2%
- EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 11%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ARM: OMAP2+: Fix memory leak in realtime_counter_init()
The "sys_clk" resource is malloced by clk_get(), it is not released when the function return.
Patch / fix
- Linux Linux 4.14.308, 4.19.276, 5.4.235, 5.10.173, 5.15.99, 6.1.16, 6.2.3, 6.3
- linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 6.1.20-1
debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50872
- linux Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-152.169
- linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-75.82
- linux-aws Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1104.112
- linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1038.43
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1107.116
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1036.44
- linux-gke Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1036.41
- linux-ibm Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1051.56
ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50872
Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0
- kernel-64kb SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-ESPOS 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
- kernel-syms SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +1 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
- kernel-source SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +1 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
- kernel-default SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.4 +5 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
- kernel-obs-build SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +1 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
- kernel-default-base SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.4 +3 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1.150400.24.98.3
- kernel-rt SLE Micro 5.4, SLE Micro 5.3 5.14.21-150400.15.142.1
- kernel-source-rt SLE Micro 5.4, SLE Micro 5.3 5.14.21-150400.15.142.1
suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:0617-1SUSE-SU-2026:0411-1SUSE-SU-2026:0317-1SUSE-SU-2026:0263-1
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f9aedabce3404dd8bb769822fc11317c55fbdc1 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/e3a6af3059e4f83d1a986a3180eb1e04f99c9e64 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/8041f9a2a958277f95926560dc85910aecd48c0b commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/4862c41d5f3bee1ec64c979c82bd8cfe96b78f7d commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/10fcdad2b9f3f424873714eb8713a3e6f7ab84bb commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/98df4bdf3b010c23cc3c542d0c303016e5fceb40 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f7ad1b08533247c4bf29217ba499ea4138cc2c1 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed8167cbf65c2b6ff6faeb0f96ded4d6d581e1ac commit
Vendor advisories
What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.
red hat product security vex CVE-2022-50872 updated cvss 5.5
kernel: Linux kernel (ARM OMAP2+): Memory leak in realtime_counter_init()
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 moreaffected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernelnot affected: vulnerable code not present
Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf
Exploit prediction
0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 11% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
Affected products
- Linux Linux
Classification
- Technology feeds
References
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/5f9aedabce3404dd8bb769822fc11317c55fbdc1
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/e3a6af3059e4f83d1a986a3180eb1e04f99c9e64
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/8041f9a2a958277f95926560dc85910aecd48c0b
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/4862c41d5f3bee1ec64c979c82bd8cfe96b78f7d
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/10fcdad2b9f3f424873714eb8713a3e6f7ab84bb
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/98df4bdf3b010c23cc3c542d0c303016e5fceb40
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/4f7ad1b08533247c4bf29217ba499ea4138cc2c1
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/ed8167cbf65c2b6ff6faeb0f96ded4d6d581e1ac
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2022-50872
- NVD CVE-2022-50872
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