What is CVE-2022-50479?

CVE-2022-50479 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux, classified under Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2025-10-04.

How severe is CVE-2022-50479?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Linux

CVE-2022-50479

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd: fix potential memory leak This patch fix potential memory leak (clk_src) when function run into last return NULL. s/free/kfree/ - Alex

Published 2025-10-04 · last modified 2026-08-15.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.001 (2.6th percentile), scored 2026-10-01.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 3rd percentile — 2.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.001 · newest: 0.001 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Linux — versions 3a83e4e64bb1522ddac67ffc787d1c38291e1a65, 3cffeffe051a961417bc26f2053bced4cff83119, 0
Linux Kernel

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

References

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-50479?: CVE-2022-50479 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux, classified under Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2025-10-04.
How severe is CVE-2022-50479?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.