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cifs: fix small mempool leak in SMB2_negotiate()

Type: advisorySources: OSV

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.

Products
Kernel
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
5.15.66, 5.19.8
CVEs
CVE-2022-49938
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
2 Nov 2026, 21:33 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

cifs: fix small mempool leak in SMB2_negotiate()

core-osv · Original source

Published 18 Jun 2025, 10:54 UTC

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.

osv:CVE-2022-49938

Kernel

Fixed versions: 5.15.66, 5.19.8

Complete source record
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