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CVE-2022-50235 (GCVE-0-2022-50235)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-15 14:01 – Updated: 2026-08-05 08:57
VLAI
Title
NFSD: Protect against send buffer overflow in NFSv2 READDIR
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFSD: Protect against send buffer overflow in NFSv2 READDIR Restore the previous limit on the @count argument to prevent a buffer overflow attack.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 9e291a6a28d32545ed2fd959a8165144d1724df1 , < 0e57d696f60dee6117a8ace0cac7c5761d375277 (git)
Affected: eabc0aab98e5218ceecd82069b0d6fdfff5ee885 , < dc7f225090c29a5f3b9419b1af32846a201555e7 (git)
Affected: 53b1119a6e5028b125f431a0116ba73510d82a72 , < c2a878095b5c6f04f90553a3c45872f990dab14e (git)
Affected: 53b1119a6e5028b125f431a0116ba73510d82a72 , < f59c74df82f6ac9d2ea4e01aa3ae7c6c4481652d (git)
Affected: 53b1119a6e5028b125f431a0116ba73510d82a72 , < 00b4492686e0497fdb924a9d4c8f6f99377e176c (git)
Affected: 5.15.12 , < 5.15.75 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.75 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.19.17 , ≤ 5.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0.3 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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