{"id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50779","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:  orangefs: Fix kmemleak in orangefs_prepare_debugfs_help_string()  When insert and remove the orangefs module, then debug_help_string will be leaked:    unreferenced object 0xffff8881652ba000 (size 4096):     comm \"insmod\", pid 1701, jiffies 4294893639 (age 13218.530s)     hex dump (first 32 bytes):       43 6c 69 65 6e 74 20 44 65 62 75 67 20 4b 65 79  Client Debug Key       77 6f 72 64 73 20 61 72 65 20 75 6e 6b 6e 6f 77  words are unknow     backtrace:       [\u003c0000000004e6f8e3\u003e] kmalloc_trace+0x27/0xa0       [\u003c0000000006f75d85\u003e] orangefs_prepare_debugfs_help_string+0x5e/0x480 [orangefs]       [\u003c0000000091270a2a\u003e] _sub_I_65535_1+0x57/0xf70 [crc_itu_t]       [\u003c000000004b1ee1a3\u003e] do_one_initcall+0x87/0x2a0       [\u003c000000001d0614ae\u003e] do_init_module+0xdf/0x320       [\u003c00000000efef068c\u003e] load_module+0x2f98/0x3330       [\u003c000000006533b44d\u003e] __do_sys_finit_module+0x113/0x1b0       [\u003c00000000a0da6f99\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80       [\u003c000000007790b19b\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0  When remove the module, should always free debug_help_string. Should always free the allocated buffer when change the free_debug_help_string.","modified":"2026-09-01T16:05:36.193615381Z","published":"2025-12-24T13:16:04.740Z","upstream":["CVE-2022-50779"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-50779"}],"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-2022-50779.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-2022-50779.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-2022-50779.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0"}