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CVE-2022-50449

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-50449 is a memory leak vulnerability in the Linux kernel's Samsung clock driver, specifically within the _samsung_clk_register_pll() function. If clk_register() fails, allocated memory for the rate_table is not properly freed, leading to a memory leak. This vulnerability affects Linux kernel versions and has a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, requiring local privileges, and potentially leading to a high impact on availability (denial of service). There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 3.12, < 4.14.303CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.15, < 4.19.270CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.20, < 5.4.229CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.5, < 5.10.163CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.11, < 5.15.86CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.15%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
5.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0015 is in the 31st percentile among its peer group of 15,940 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2022-50449

kernel: clk: samsung: Fix memory leak in _samsung_clk_register_pll()

Oct 1, 2025

References

git.kernel.org / stable/c/2e8dc0626fe86ae08914478dec1419618c557bc0
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/4887ec922e407b4feaf060c7b099482a5c52dee3
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/4e501a31af8efa593a2f003637b56d00b75dca23
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/5174e5b0d1b669a489524192b6adcbb3c54ebc72
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/7b738276a596fa101d320591e9fa84ea0fc3f713
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/a00b4e0fa27317957536abf8f5d6a96d6cb9d9be
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/a35323218ff32782d051d2643912311a22e07b6a
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/da13355bb9961316d124f94dfc7a1385d0fb035a
Patch