CVE-2022-50727: scsi: efct: Fix possible memleak in efct_device_init()
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.
No CVSS vector published; no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 4 · Related 4Timeline
- 24-12-2025PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 11-05-2026Last 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
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.
Not in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeNo weakness data has been published for this record.
Affected systems
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