vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2022-49938: kernel: cifs: fix small mempool leak in SMB2_negotiate()
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Jun 18, 2025 | Jul 9, 2025 | Aug 4, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jun 18, 2025
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Aug 4, 2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cifs: fix small mempool leak in SMB2_negotiate()
In some cases of failure (dialect mismatches) in SMB2_negotiate(), after
the request is sent, the checks would return -EIO when they should be
rather setting rc = -EIO and jumping to neg_exit to free the response
buffer from mempool.
Solution
no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
References
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