CVE-2022-50114 net: 9p: fix refcount leak in p9_read_work() error handling

What is CVE-2022-50114?

CVE-2022-50114 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 18 Jun 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: 9p: fix refcount leak in p9_read_work() error handling

p9_req_put need to be called when m->rreq->rc.sdata is NULL to avoid temporary refcount leak.

[Dominique: commit wording adjustments, p9_req_put argument fixes for rebase]

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-50114?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2022-50114?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2022-50114 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50114 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2022-0185 Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2026-53362 Linux Kernel Unspecified Exploited High 7.8

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50114, GHSA-w3cc-2684-28pf, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2022-50114, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50114.