CVE-2022-50140 memstick/ms_block: Fix a memory leak

What is CVE-2022-50140?

CVE-2022-50140 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 18 Jun 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

memstick/ms_block: Fix a memory leak

'erased_blocks_bitmap' is never freed. As it is allocated at the same time as 'used_blocks_bitmap', it is likely that it should be freed also at the same time.

Add the corresponding bitmap_free() in msb_data_clear().

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-50140?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2022-50140?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2022-50140 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50140 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50140, GHSA-3pqf-hwqx-7c78, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50140.