CVE-2022-49705

9p: fix fid refcount leak in v9fs_vfs_atomic_open_dotl

State: Published
Severity: 5.5 Medium
Published: Feb 26, 2025
Updated: May 11, 2026
Reserved: Feb 26, 2025

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Description

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

9p: fix fid refcount leak in v9fs_vfs_atomic_open_dotl

We need to release directory fid if we fail halfway through open

This fixes fid leaking with xfstests generic 531

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
LinuxLinux	6636b6dcc3db2258cd0585b8078c1c225c4b6dde to before 22832ac3eb5be3f7168816a76b64c1284e12eb3cAffected 6636b6dcc3db2258cd0585b8078c1c225c4b6dde to before 8bc5412ba1a45edfd1e451874c483c26a097af2bAffected 6636b6dcc3db2258cd0585b8078c1c225c4b6dde to before beca774fc51a9ba8abbc869cf0c3d965ff17cd24Affected
LinuxLinux	5.11Affected before 5.11Not affected 5.15.51 through 5.15.Not affected 5.18.8 through 5.18.Not affected 5.19 and laterNot affected

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