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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2022-47941

An issue was discovered in ksmbd in the Linux kernel 5.15 through 5.19 before 5.19.2. fs/ksmbd/smb2pdu.c omits a kfree call in certain smb2_handle_negotiate error conditions, aka a memory leak.

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3 Nov 2026, 17:52 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2022-47941

core-osv · Original source

Published 23 Dec 2022, 00:00 UTC

An issue was discovered in ksmbd in the Linux kernel 5.15 through 5.19 before 5.19.2. fs/ksmbd/smb2pdu.c omits a kfree call in certain smb2_handle_negotiate error conditions, aka a memory leak.

osv:CVE-2022-47941
Complete source record
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