CVE-2022-50267 mmc: rtsx_pci: fix return value check of mmc_add_host()

What is CVE-2022-50267?

CVE-2022-50267 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 15 Sep 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:

mmc: rtsx_pci: fix return value check of mmc_add_host()

mmc_add_host() may return error, if we ignore its return value, the memory that allocated in mmc_alloc_host() will be leaked and it will lead a kernel crash because of deleting not added device in the remove path.

So fix this by checking the return value and calling mmc_free_host() in the error path, beside, runtime PM also needs be disabled.

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-50267?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2022-50267?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2022-50267 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50267 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-2022-50267, GHSA-542m-h257-c5wg, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2022-50267, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50267.