CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-50372
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-09-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.0.6)
• linux linux kernel 6.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness