# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-50372"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-17T14:56:27.577Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:18:16.908Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:49.724Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50372"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50372.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50372"
title: "cifs: Fix memory leak when build ntlmssp negotiate blob failed"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncifs: Fix memory leak when build ntlmssp negotiate blob failed\n\nThere is a memory leak when mount cifs:\n  unreferenced object 0xffff888166059600 (size 448):\n    comm \"mount.cifs\", pid 51391, jiffies 4295596373 (age 330.596s)\n    hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n      fe 53 4d 42 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 82 00  .SMB@...........\n      00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................\n    backtrace:\n      [\u003c0000000060609a61\u003e] mempool_alloc+0xe1/0x260\n      [\u003c00000000adfa6c63\u003e] cifs_small_buf_get+0x24/0x60\n      [\u003c00000000ebb404c7\u003e] __smb2_plain_req_init+0x32/0x460\n      [\u003c00000000bcf875b4\u003e] SMB2_sess_alloc_buffer+0xa4/0x3f0\n      [\u003c00000000753a2987\u003e] SMB2_sess_auth_rawntlmssp_negotiate+0xf5/0x480\n      [\u003c00000000f0c1f4f9\u003e] SMB2_sess_setup+0x253/0x410\n      [\u003c00000000a8b83303\u003e] cifs_setup_session+0x18f/0x4c0\n      [\u003c00000000854bd16d\u003e] cifs_get_smb_ses+0xae7/0x13c0\n      [\u003c000000006cbc43d9\u003e] mount_get_conns+0x7a/0x730\n      [\u003c000000005922d816\u003e] cifs_mount+0x103/0xd10\n      [\u003c00000000e33def3b\u003e] cifs_smb3_do_mount+0x1dd/0xc90\n      [\u003c0000000078034979\u003e] smb3_get_tree+0x1d5/0x300\n      [\u003c000000004371f980\u003e] vfs_get_tree+0x41/0xf0\n      [\u003c00000000b670d8a7\u003e] path_mount+0x9b3/0xdd0\n      [\u003c000000005e839a7d\u003e] __x64_sys_mount+0x190/0x1d0\n      [\u003c000000009404c3b9\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80\n\nWhen build ntlmssp negotiate blob failed, the session setup request\nshould be freed."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"49bd49f983b5026e4557d31c5d737d9657c4113e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fa5a70bdd5e565c8696fb04dfe18a4e8aff4695d"},{"version":"49bd49f983b5026e4557d31c5d737d9657c4113e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"30b2d7f8f13664655480d6af45f60270b3eb6736"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"},{"version":"6.0.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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