CVE-2022-50341

cifs: fix oops during encryption

MEDIUM
5.5
CVSS Score
Published: September 16, 2025 at 04:11 PM UTC
Updated: August 5, 2026 at 09:24 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
MEDIUM5.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.1%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: fix oops during encryption When running xfstests against Azure the following oops occurred on an arm64 system Unable to handle kernel write to read-only memory at virtual address ffff0001221cf000 Mem abort info: ESR = 0x9600004f EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits SET = 0, FnV = 0 EA = 0, S1PTW = 0 FSC = 0x0f: level 3 permission fault Data abort info: ISV = 0, ISS = 0x0000004f CM = 0, WnR = 1 swapper pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=00000000294f3000 [ffff0001221cf000] pgd=18000001ffff8003, p4d=18000001ffff8003, pud=18000001ff82e003, pmd=18000001ff71d003, pte=00600001221cf787 Internal error: Oops: 9600004f [#1] PREEMPT SMP ... pstate: 80000005 (Nzcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--) pc : __memcpy+0x40/0x230 lr : scatterwalk_copychunks+0xe0/0x200 sp : ffff800014e92de0 x29: ffff800014e92de0 x28: ffff000114f9de80 x27: 0000000000000008 x26: 0000000000000008 x25: ffff800014e92e78 x24: 0000000000000008 x23: 0000000000000001 x22: 0000040000000000 x21: ffff000000000000 x20: 0000000000000001 x19: ffff0001037c4488 x18: 0000000000000014 x17: 235e1c0d6efa9661 x16: a435f9576b6edd6c x15: 0000000000000058 x14: 0000000000000001 x13: 0000000000000008 x12: ffff000114f2e590 x11: ffffffffffffffff x10: 0000040000000000 x9 : ffff8000105c3580 x8 : 2e9413b10000001a x7 : 534b4410fb86b005 x6 : 534b4410fb86b005 x5 : ffff0001221cf008 x4 : ffff0001037c4490 x3 : 0000000000000001 x2 : 0000000000000008 x1 : ffff0001037c4488 x0 : ffff0001221cf000 Call trace: __memcpy+0x40/0x230 scatterwalk_map_and_copy+0x98/0x100 crypto_ccm_encrypt+0x150/0x180 crypto_aead_encrypt+0x2c/0x40 crypt_message+0x750/0x880 smb3_init_transform_rq+0x298/0x340 smb_send_rqst.part.11+0xd8/0x180 smb_send_rqst+0x3c/0x100 compound_send_recv+0x534/0xbc0 smb2_query_info_compound+0x32c/0x440 smb2_set_ea+0x438/0x4c0 cifs_xattr_set+0x5d4/0x7c0 This is because in scatterwalk_copychunks(), we attempted to write to a buffer (@sign) that was allocated in the stack (vmalloc area) by crypt_message() and thus accessing its remaining 8 (x2) bytes ended up crossing a page boundary. To simply fix it, we could just pass @sign kmalloc'd from crypt_message() and then we're done. Luckily, we don't seem to pass any other vmalloc'd buffers in smb_rqst::rq_iov... Instead, let's map the correct pages and offsets from vmalloc buffers as well in cifs_sg_set_buf() and then avoiding such oopses.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 5.4.2294.11 ≤ v < 5.10.1634.11 ≤ v < 5.15.874.11 ≤ v < 5.4.2294.11 ≤ v < 6.0.164.11 ≤ v < 6.1.14.11 ≤ v < 6.25.11 ≤ v < 5.15.875.16 ≤ v < 6.0.165.5 ≤ v < 5.10.1636.1 ≤ v < 6.1.126e93dc0a3eefb0be60bcb9ecd8d7a7fd5c3984.11
Vendor states this is fixed in a13e51760703f71c25d5fc1f4a62dfa4b0cc80e9 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in bf0543b93740916ee91956f9a63da6fc0d79daaa (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in e8d16a54842d609fd4a3ed2d81d4333d6329aa94 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in e8e2861cc3258dbe407d01ea8c59bb5a53132301 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in f7f291e14dde32a07b1f0aa06921d28f875a7b54 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in fe6ea044c4f05706cb71040055b1c70c6c8275e0 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4.11 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.163 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.87 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.4.229 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.0.16 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.1 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.2 (unaffected)

References (6)

Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a13e51760703f71c25d5fc1f4a62dfa4b0cc80e9
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf0543b93740916ee91956f9a63da6fc0d79daaa
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e8d16a54842d609fd4a3ed2d81d4333d6329aa94
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e8e2861cc3258dbe407d01ea8c59bb5a53132301
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f7f291e14dde32a07b1f0aa06921d28f875a7b54
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe6ea044c4f05706cb71040055b1c70c6c8275e0

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CVSS

5.5MEDIUMCISA-ADP
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

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