CVE-2022-49107: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ceph: fix memory leak in ceph_readdir when note_last_dentry returns error Reset the last_readdir at the same time, and add a comment explaining why we don't free last_readdir when dir_emit returns false.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 5.10.111 (fixed in 5.10.111); from 5.11, before 5.15.34 (fixed in 5.15.34); from 5.16, before 5.16.20 (fixed in 5.16.20); from 5.17, before 5.17.3 (fixed in 5.17.3)

Published 2025-02-26. Last modified 2026-08-13.