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CVE-2022-49938

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.

  • Published: Jun 18, 2025
  • Updated: Nov 15, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2022-49938
  • Severity: Medium
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 5.5
  • AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
linux / linux_kernel - 5.15.66
linux / linux_kernel 5.16 5.19.8
linux / linux_kernel 6.0-rc1 6.0-rc1.x
linux / linux_kernel 6.0-rc2 6.0-rc2.x
linux / linux_kernel 6.0-rc3 6.0-rc3.x