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CVE-2022-0168
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.4
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2022-08-26T18:15:08.550 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:20:05.250

Summary

A denial of service (DOS) issue was found in the Linux kernel’s smb2_ioctl_query_info function in the fs/cifs/smb2ops.c Common Internet File System (CIFS) due to an incorrect return from the memdup_user function. This flaw allows a local, privileged (CAP_SYS_ADMIN) attacker to crash the system.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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