CVE-2022-50385

Updated on 18 Sep 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:

NFS: Fix an Oops in nfs_d_automount()

When mounting from a NFSv4 referral, path->dentry can end up being a negative dentry, so derive the struct nfs_server from the dentry itself instead.

Details

Affected packages:
linux-hwe @ 4.15.0 (+9 more)

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

NFS: Fix an Oops in nfs_d_automount()

When mounting from a NFSv4 referral, path->dentry can end up being a negative dentry, so derive the struct nfs_server from the dentry itself instead.

Fixes