CVE-2022-50351
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Publication date: 2025-09-16
Last updated on: 2025-12-01
Assigner: kernel.org
Description
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cifs: Fix xid leak in cifs_create()
If the cifs already shutdown, we should free the xid before return,
otherwise, the xid will be leaked.
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Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | From 5.13 (inc) to 5.15.76 (exc) |
| linux | linux_kernel | From 5.16 (inc) to 6.0.6 (exc) |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.1 |
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Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-401 | The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, making the memory unavailable for reallocation and reuse. |
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AI Powered Q&A
Can you explain this vulnerability to me?
This vulnerability is a resource leak in the Linux kernel's CIFS (Common Internet File System) implementation. Specifically, when the CIFS client has already shut down, the code fails to free a transaction identifier (xid) in the cifs_create() function, causing the xid to be leaked.
How can this vulnerability impact me? :
The impact of this vulnerability is a resource leak, which could lead to increased memory usage or exhaustion of transaction identifiers over time, potentially degrading system performance or stability.
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