CVE-2022-50076
5.5 mediumEPSS 0.2%
Medium (5.5) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cifs: Fix memory leak on the deferred close
xfstests on smb21 report kmemleak as below:
unreferenced object 0xffff8881767d6200 (size 64):
comm "xfs_io", pid 1284, jiffies 4294777434 (age 20.789s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
80 5a d0 11 81 88 ff ff 78 8a aa 63 81 88 ff ff .Z......x..c....
00 71 99 76 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .q.v............
backtrace:
[<00000000ad04e6ea>] cifs_close+0x92/0x2c0
[<0000000028b93c82>] __fput+0xff/0x3f0
[<00000000d8116851>] task_work_run+0x85/0xc0
[<0000000027e14f9e>] do_exit+0x5e5/0x1240
[<00000000fb492b95>] do_group_exit+0x58/0xe0
[<00000000129a32d9>] __x64_sys_exit_group+0x28/0x30
[<00000000e3f7d8e9>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
[<00000000102e8a0b>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
When cancel the deferred close work, we should also cleanup the struct
cifs_deferred_close.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 8% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-401
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
References
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