CVE-2022-50372

cifs: Fix memory leak when build ntlmssp negotiate blob failed

Medium · published September 17, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
7.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

cifs: Fix memory leak when build ntlmssp negotiate blob failed

There is a memory leak when mount cifs:

unreferenced object 0xffff888166059600 (size 448):

comm "mount.cifs", pid 51391, jiffies 4295596373 (age 330.596s)

hex dump (first 32 bytes):

fe 53 4d 42 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 82 00 .SMB@...........

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

backtrace:

[<0000000060609a61>] mempool_alloc+0xe1/0x260

[<00000000adfa6c63>] cifs_small_buf_get+0x24/0x60

[<00000000ebb404c7>] __smb2_plain_req_init+0x32/0x460

[<00000000bcf875b4>] SMB2_sess_alloc_buffer+0xa4/0x3f0

[<00000000753a2987>] SMB2_sess_auth_rawntlmssp_negotiate+0xf5/0x480

[<00000000f0c1f4f9>] SMB2_sess_setup+0x253/0x410

[<00000000a8b83303>] cifs_setup_session+0x18f/0x4c0

[<00000000854bd16d>] cifs_get_smb_ses+0xae7/0x13c0

[<000000006cbc43d9>] mount_get_conns+0x7a/0x730

[<000000005922d816>] cifs_mount+0x103/0xd10

[<00000000e33def3b>] cifs_smb3_do_mount+0x1dd/0xc90

[<0000000078034979>] smb3_get_tree+0x1d5/0x300

[<000000004371f980>] vfs_get_tree+0x41/0xf0

[<00000000b670d8a7>] path_mount+0x9b3/0xdd0

[<000000005e839a7d>] __x64_sys_mount+0x190/0x1d0

[<000000009404c3b9>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80

When build ntlmssp negotiate blob failed, the session setup request

should be freed.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00184 · 7.6th percentile
Published
2025-09-17T14:56Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 17 SEP 14:56Z
    cifs: Fix memory leak when build ntlmssp negotiate blob failed
    cvelistv5