Security Advisory

CVE-2022-49938

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-06-18 10:54:39
Last updated 2026-05-23 15:23:18
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

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.