CVE-2022-50046

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-50046
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-50046.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-50046
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-06-18T11:15:33Z
Modified
2025-06-18T16:00:25Z
Summary
[none]
Details

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

net/sunrpc: fix potential memory leaks in rpcsysfsxprtstatechange()

The issue happens on some error handling paths. When the function fails to grab the object xprt, it simply returns 0, forgetting to decrease the reference count of another object xps, which is increased by rpcsysfsxprtkobjgetxprtswitch(), causing refcount leaks. Also, the function forgets to check whether xps is valid before using it, which may result in NULL-dereferencing issues.

Fix it by adding proper error handling code when either xprt or xps is NULL.

References

Affected packages

Debian:12 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.0.2-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.0.2-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}