VYPR
Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 18, 2025· Updated Dec 23, 2025

cifs: fix small mempool leak in SMB2_negotiate()

CVE-2022-49938

Description

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.

Affected products

91

Patches

0

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

3

News mentions

0

No linked articles in our index yet.