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CVE-2022-50107

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
CWE ID
Links
NISTCIRCLRHELUbuntu

Overview

About vulnerability

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

cifs: Fix memory leak when using fscache

If we hit the ‘index == next_cached’ case, we leak a refcount on the struct page. Fix this by using readahead_folio() which takes care of the refcount for you.

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:

cifs: Fix memory leak when using fscache

If we hit the ‘index == next_cached’ case, we leak a refcount on the struct page. Fix this by using readahead_folio() which takes care of the refcount for you.

Fixes