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FKIE_CVE-2022-50372

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-09-17 15:15 - Updated: 2026-01-14 19:16

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: Fix memory leak when build ntlmssp negotiate blob failed There is a memory leak when mount cifs: unreferenced object 0xffff888166059600 (size 448): comm "mount.cifs", pid 51391, jiffies 4295596373 (age 330.596s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): fe 53 4d 42 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 82 00 .SMB@........... 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<0000000060609a61>] mempool_alloc+0xe1/0x260 [<00000000adfa6c63>] cifs_small_buf_get+0x24/0x60 [<00000000ebb404c7>] __smb2_plain_req_init+0x32/0x460 [<00000000bcf875b4>] SMB2_sess_alloc_buffer+0xa4/0x3f0 [<00000000753a2987>] SMB2_sess_auth_rawntlmssp_negotiate+0xf5/0x480 [<00000000f0c1f4f9>] SMB2_sess_setup+0x253/0x410 [<00000000a8b83303>] cifs_setup_session+0x18f/0x4c0 [<00000000854bd16d>] cifs_get_smb_ses+0xae7/0x13c0 [<000000006cbc43d9>] mount_get_conns+0x7a/0x730 [<000000005922d816>] cifs_mount+0x103/0xd10 [<00000000e33def3b>] cifs_smb3_do_mount+0x1dd/0xc90 [<0000000078034979>] smb3_get_tree+0x1d5/0x300 [<000000004371f980>] vfs_get_tree+0x41/0xf0 [<00000000b670d8a7>] path_mount+0x9b3/0xdd0 [<000000005e839a7d>] __x64_sys_mount+0x190/0x1d0 [<000000009404c3b9>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 When build ntlmssp negotiate blob failed, the session setup request should be freed.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/30b2d7f8f13664655480d6af45f60270b3eb6736	Patch
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fa5a70bdd5e565c8696fb04dfe18a4e8aff4695d	Patch

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	linux	linux_kernel	*
	linux	linux_kernel	6.1

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CVE-2022-50372 (GCVE-0-2022-50372)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-17 14:56 – Updated: 2026-01-14 18:43

Title

cifs: Fix memory leak when build ntlmssp negotiate blob failed

Summary

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE

CWE-401 - Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fa5a70bdd5e565c86…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/30b2d7f8f13664655…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Linux

Affected: 49bd49f983b5026e4557d31c5d737d9657c4113e , < fa5a70bdd5e565c8696fb04dfe18a4e8aff4695d (git)
Affected: 49bd49f983b5026e4557d31c5d737d9657c4113e , < 30b2d7f8f13664655480d6af45f60270b3eb6736 (git)

Linux

Affected: 5.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0.6 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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