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        "cveId": "CVE-2022-49418",
        "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
        "state": "PUBLISHED",
        "assignerShortName": "Linux",
        "dateReserved": "2025-02-26T02:08:31.568Z",
        "datePublished": "2025-02-26T02:12:43.359Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T08:55:09.630Z"
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                    "lang": "en",
                    "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nNFSv4: Fix free of uninitialized nfs4_label on referral lookup.\n\nSend along the already-allocated fattr along with nfs4_fs_locations, and\ndrop the memcpy of fattr.  We end up growing two more allocations, but this\nfixes up a crash as:\n\nPID: 790    TASK: ffff88811b43c000  CPU: 0   COMMAND: \"ls\"\n #0 [ffffc90000857920] panic at ffffffff81b9bfde\n #1 [ffffc900008579c0] do_trap at ffffffff81023a9b\n #2 [ffffc90000857a10] do_error_trap at ffffffff81023b78\n #3 [ffffc90000857a58] exc_stack_segment at ffffffff81be1f45\n #4 [ffffc90000857a80] asm_exc_stack_segment at ffffffff81c009de\n #5 [ffffc90000857b08] nfs_lookup at ffffffffa0302322 [nfs]\n #6 [ffffc90000857b70] __lookup_slow at ffffffff813a4a5f\n #7 [ffffc90000857c60] walk_component at ffffffff813a86c4\n #8 [ffffc90000857cb8] path_lookupat at ffffffff813a9553\n #9 [ffffc90000857cf0] filename_lookup at ffffffff813ab86b"
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                        "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                        "baseScore": 9.8,
                        "baseSeverity": "CRITICAL"
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                            "lang": "en",
                            "value": "AV:N - The bug is in the NFSv4 client referral path (fs/nfs): a malicious or compromised NFS server drives it by returning NFS4ERR_MOVED on LOOKUP and a successful FS_LOCATIONS reply with a different fsid over the network.\nAC:L - The remote server fully controls when MOVED/referral replies are sent and can trigger the path deterministically; CONFIG_NFS_V4_SECURITY_LABEL defaults to y, so the uninitialized-label free is not gated on a rare config.\nPR:N - Exploitation is from the remote NFS peer (or on-path AUTH_SYS attacker) with no account or capability on the victim client; no client-side privileges are required beyond an existing NFSv4 mount relationship.\nUI:N - An already-mounted NFSv4 export plus ordinary client lookups/revalidations (or automount activity) is enough; the malicious server can wait for routine pathwalks without a distinct victim action at exploit time.\nS:U - The uninitialized free and resulting heap corruption stay in the client kernel address space within the same security authority; no VM, IOMMU, or sandbox boundary is crossed.\nC:H - memcpy replaces a valid fattr->label with uninitialized kmalloc garbage, then nfs4_label_free dereferences that pointer (kfree(label->label)/kfree(label)), yielding memory-corruption primitives that can disclose kernel memory when the freed object is reclaimed.\nI:H - Freeing an uninitialized nfs4_label pointer is an arbitrary/corrupt free suitable for heap manipulation and control-flow hijacking, consistent with treating this class of memory corruption as high integrity impact.\nA:H - The reported crash is a kernel panic/oops in nfs_lookup (exc_stack_segment) when the garbage label is freed, and the corruption is repeatable whenever the server returns a referral."
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