CVE-2022-50727: scsi: efct: Fix possible memleak in efct_device_init()

Deferred
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50727DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50727
Published 24-12-2025Last modified 11-05-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-50727 is a vulnerability in linux with no CVSS score yet. EPSS estimates a 0.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 15.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Insufficient evidence

No CVSS vector published; no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
Not scored
010
No CVSS score recorded
EPSS score
0.24%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 4 · Related 4

Timeline

  1. 24-12-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: efct: Fix possible memleak in efct_device_init() In efct_device_init(), when efct_scsi_reg_fc_transport() fails, efct_scsi_tgt_driver_exit() is not called to release memory for efct_scsi_tgt_driver_init() and causes memleak: unreferenced object 0xffff8881020ce000 (size 2048): comm "modprobe", pid 465, jiffies 4294928222 (age 55.872s) backtrace: [<0000000021a1ef1b>] kmalloc_trace+0x27/0x110 [<000000004c3ed51c>] target_register_template+0x4fd/0x7b0 [target_core_mod] [<00000000f3393296>] efct_scsi_tgt_driver_init+0x18/0x50 [efct] [<00000000115de533>] 0xffffffffc0d90011 [<00000000d608f646>] do_one_initcall+0xd0/0x4e0 [<0000000067828cf1>] do_init_module+0x1cc/0x6a0 ...

CVSS metrics

Risk metrics not yet published.

EPSS trend

Probability

0.24%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

16%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.24% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

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CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu104 products
  • linux< 5.15.0-69.76
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 5.15.0-1033.37
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.1.4-1
Linux1 product
  • linux≥ 4df84e8466242de835416a4ec0c856c0e2ed26eb, < 038359eeccffaf0de4c1c9c51ee19cc5649619a1 | ≥ 4df84e8466242de835416a4ec0c856c0e2ed26eb, < 0c6e6bb30229b1297ac0fd7ede2941d2322fc736 | ≥ 4df84e8466242de835416a4ec0c856c0e2ed26eb, < c7e96168a8ca3be96c4959475164bef31115f07e | ≥ 4df84e8466242de835416a4ec0c856c0e2ed26eb, < bb0cd225dd37df1f4a22e36dad59ff33178ecdfc | 5.14

3 vendors · 106 products

References

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