CVE-2022-50235

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

Publication date:

15/09/2025

Last modified:

24/11/2025

Description

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

7.80

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.15.12 (including)	5.15.75 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.16.1 (including)	5.19.17 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.0 (including)	6.0.3 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.16:-::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.16:rc7::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.16:rc8::::::

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2022-50235

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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