{"id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50473","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:  cpufreq: Init completion before kobject_init_and_add()  In cpufreq_policy_alloc(), it will call uninitialed completion in cpufreq_sysfs_release() when kobject_init_and_add() fails. And that will cause a crash such as the following page fault in complete:  BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffffffffffff8 [..] RIP: 0010:complete+0x98/0x1f0 [..] Call Trace:  kobject_put+0x1be/0x4c0  cpufreq_online.cold+0xee/0x1fd  cpufreq_add_dev+0x183/0x1e0  subsys_interface_register+0x3f5/0x4e0  cpufreq_register_driver+0x3b7/0x670  acpi_cpufreq_init+0x56c/0x1000 [acpi_cpufreq]  do_one_initcall+0x13d/0x780  do_init_module+0x1c3/0x630  load_module+0x6e67/0x73b0  __do_sys_finit_module+0x181/0x240  do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd","modified":"2026-09-01T16:05:35.319236191Z","published":"2025-10-04T16:15:43.793Z","upstream":["CVE-2022-50473"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-50473"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"linux","ecosystem":"Debian:12","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=bookworm"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.1.4-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50473.json"}},{"package":{"name":"linux","ecosystem":"Debian:13","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=trixie"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.1.4-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50473.json"}},{"package":{"name":"linux","ecosystem":"Debian:14","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=forky"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.1.4-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50473.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}