CVE-2022-49058: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: potential buffer overflow in handling symlinks Smatch printed a warning: arch/x86/crypto/poly1305_glue.c:198 poly1305_update_arch() error: __memcpy() 'dctx->buf' too small (16 vs u32max) It's caused because Smatch marks 'link_len' as untrusted since it comes from sscanf(). Add a check to ensure that 'link_len' is not larger than the size of the 'link_str' buffer.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 2.6.37, before 4.9.311 (fixed in 4.9.311); from 4.10, before 4.14.276 (fixed in 4.14.276); from 4.15, before 4.19.239 (fixed in 4.19.239); from 4.20, before 5.4.190 (fixed in 5.4.190); from 5.5, before 5.10.112 (fixed in 5.10.112); from 5.11, before 5.15.35 (fixed in 5.15.35); …

Published 2025-02-26. Last modified 2026-08-04.