CVE-2022-50460 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Linux

CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective LifetimeCWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime5 documents5 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 96.90%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
LinuxLinux KernelDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedOct 1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: Fix xid leak in cifs_flock() If not flock, before return -ENOLCK, should free the xid, otherwise, the xid will be leaked.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDlinux/linux_kernel5.5 — 5.10.152+3
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 5.10.158-1+3
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxd0677992d2af3d65f1c1c21de3323d09d4891537 — 2d08311aa3056a84bfdc09bc47777de6a9b16c30+4
▶debiandebian/linux< linux 6.0.6-1 (bookworm)

Patches

Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-g9wx-jrcm-hgg5: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: Fix xid leak in cifs_flock() If not flock, before return -ENOLCK, should f↗2025-10-01
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OSV
CVE-2022-50460: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: Fix xid leak in cifs_flock() If not flock, before return -ENOLCK, should fre↗2025-10-01
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: kernel: Denial of Service due to xid leak in cifs_flock()↗2025-10-01
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Debian
CVE-2022-50460: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: Fix x...↗2022
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