CVE-2022-49020: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/9p: Fix a potential socket leak in p9_socket_open Both p9_fd_create_tcp() and p9_fd_create_unix() will call p9_socket_open(). If the creation of p9_trans_fd fails, p9_fd_create_tcp() and p9_fd_create_unix() will return an error directly instead of releasing the cscoket, which will result in a socket leak. This patch adds sock_release() to fix the leak issue.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 2.6.33, before 4.9.335 (fixed in 4.9.335); from 4.10, before 4.14.301 (fixed in 4.14.301); from 4.15, before 4.19.268 (fixed in 4.19.268); from 4.20, before 5.4.226 (fixed in 5.4.226); from 5.5, before 5.10.158 (fixed in 5.10.158); from 5.11, before 5.15.82 (fixed in 5.15.82); …

Published 2024-10-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.