CVE-2022-49822

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 36/100
Published: 2025-05-01 Modified: 2026-11-05 First seen: 2026-11-05 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local
AC: Low
PR: Low
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: None
I: None
A: High

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.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (11)

VendorProductVersion
Linux Linux 56c762eb9bee330bb4e6d11c589434f2904d3ab6 < 775d6625f96b26b90b9be9164b855ea2c471c0e5
Linux Linux 56c762eb9bee330bb4e6d11c589434f2904d3ab6 < a9059e338fc000c0b87d8cf29e93c74fd703212e
Linux Linux 56c762eb9bee330bb4e6d11c589434f2904d3ab6 < 0a087842d10b5daa123ee5291e386cdd78413705
Linux Linux 56c762eb9bee330bb4e6d11c589434f2904d3ab6 < 1dcdf5f5b2137185cbdd5385f29949ab3da4f00c
Linux Linux 5.0
linux linux_kernel 5.0 – 5.15.81
linux linux_kernel 6.1
linux linux_kernel 6.1
linux linux_kernel 6.1
linux linux_kernel 6.1
linux linux_kernel 6.1

Bug Bounty Relevance

36 / 100
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

5.5 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.20%
Raw Score 0.002030
Percentile 10.4%
Date 2026-11-05

Intelligence Sources

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