CVE-2022-50006: 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: NFSv4.2 fix problems with __nfs42_ssc_open A destination server while doing a COPY shouldn't accept using the passed in filehandle if its not a regular filehandle. If alloc_file_pseudo() has failed, we need to decrement a reference on the newly created inode, otherwise it leaks.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.5, before 5.10.140 (fixed in 5.10.140); from 5.11, before 5.15.64 (fixed in 5.15.64); from 5.16, before 5.19.6 (fixed in 5.19.6); version 6.0 only

Published 2025-06-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.