CVE-2022-49938

high

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.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e3c9efa7caf16e5acc05eab5e4d0a714e1610b0

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38a6b469bf22f153282fbe7d702a24e9eb43f50e

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/27893dfc1285f80f80f46b3b8c95f5d15d2e66d0

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-06-18

Updated: 2025-06-18

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00017