CVE-2022-50076

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 36/100
Published: 2025-06-18 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 memory leak on the deferred close xfstests on smb21 report kmemleak as below: unreferenced object 0xffff8881767d6200 (size 64): comm "xfs_io", pid 1284, jiffies 4294777434 (age 20.789s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 80 5a d0 11 81 88 ff ff 78 8a aa 63 81 88 ff ff .Z......x..c.... 00 71 99 76 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .q.v............ backtrace: [<00000000ad04e6ea>] cifs_close+0x92/0x2c0 [<0000000028b93c82>] __fput+0xff/0x3f0 [<00000000d8116851>] task_work_run+0x85/0xc0 [<0000000027e14f9e>] do_exit+0x5e5/0x1240 [<00000000fb492b95>] do_group_exit+0x58/0xe0 [<00000000129a32d9>] __x64_sys_exit_group+0x28/0x30 [<00000000e3f7d8e9>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 [<00000000102e8a0b>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0 When cancel the deferred close work, we should also cleanup the struct cifs_deferred_close.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (11)

VendorProductVersion
Linux Linux 9e992755be8f2d458a0bcbefd19e493483c1dba2 < 860efae127888ae535bc4eda1b7f27642727c69e
Linux Linux 9e992755be8f2d458a0bcbefd19e493483c1dba2 < 60b6d38add7b9c17d6e5d49ee8e930ea1a5650c5
Linux Linux 9e992755be8f2d458a0bcbefd19e493483c1dba2 < ca08d0eac020d48a3141dbec0a3cf64fbdb17cde
Linux Linux 0ca6ac8a2691762307beaa4841255d1cfe6b2684
Linux Linux 5.13.12 < 5.14
Linux Linux 5.14
linux linux_kernel 5.13.12 – 5.14
linux linux_kernel 5.14
linux linux_kernel 5.14
linux linux_kernel 5.14
linux linux_kernel 6.0

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

0.19%
Raw Score 0.001910
Percentile 8.8%
Date 2026-11-05

Intelligence Sources

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