CVE-2022-50006

Updated on 18 Jun 2025

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

NFSv4.2 fix problems with __nfs42_ssc_open

A destination server while doing a COPY shouldn’t accept using the passed in filehandle if its not a regular filehandle.

If alloc_file_pseudo() has failed, we need to decrement a reference on the newly created inode, otherwise it leaks.

Details

Affected product:
AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , TuxCare 9.6 ESU
Affected packages:
kernel @ 5.14.0 (+1 more)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

NFSv4.2 fix problems with __nfs42_ssc_open

A destination server while doing a COPY shouldn’t accept using the passed in filehandle if its not a regular filehandle.

If alloc_file_pseudo() has failed, we need to decrement a reference on the newly created inode, otherwise it leaks.

Fixes