CVE-2022-0168

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CVSS 3.1

4.4 medium

EPSS

<1%p19

Published

Aug 26, 2022 (Aug 26, 2022)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Vendors: linux redhat
Products: linux kernel, enterprise linux
Weakness: CWE-476
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (0.3%)

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