vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2022-50076): linux vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Jun 18, 2025 | Jun 26, 2025 | Nov 20, 2025 |
Description
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.
Solutions
References
- CVE-2022-50076
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2022-50076
- CWE-401
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60b6d38add7b9c17d6e5d49ee8e930ea1a5650c5
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/860efae127888ae535bc4eda1b7f27642727c69e
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca08d0eac020d48a3141dbec0a3cf64fbdb17cde
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50076
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