CVE-2022-49822

medium
Published 2025-05-01 ยท Modified 2026-06-01
CVSS v3
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.5

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: Fix connections leak when tlink setup failed If the tlink setup failed, lost to put the connections, then the module refcnt leak since the cifsd kthread not exit. Also leak the fscache info, and for next mount with fsc, it will print the follow errors: CIFS: Cache volume key already in use (cifs,127.0.0.1:445,TEST) Let's check the result of tlink setup, and do some cleanup.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
55%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

linux Linux kernel Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
6.1 Affected โ€”
โ€” Affected 5.15.81
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
โ€” Affected โ€”
debian Debian Mixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 6.0.10-1
sid Fixed 6.0.10-1
forky Fixed 6.0.10-1
bullseye Affected โ€”
bookworm Fixed 6.0.10-1

References

CWEs

CWE-401

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.