CVSS 3.1
4.4 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2022-0168
A denial of service (DOS) issue was found in the Linux kernel’s smb2_ioctl_query_info function in the fs/cifs/smb2ops.c Common Internet File System (CIFS) due to an incorrect return from the memdup_user function. This flaw allows a local, privileged (CAP_SYS_ADMIN) attacker to crash the system.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 19% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-476
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
- redhat:enterprise_linux
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0168
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2037386
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d6f5e358452479fa8a773b5c6ccc9e4ec5a20880
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0168
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2037386