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CVE-2022-50487 Detail

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFSD: Protect against send buffer overflow in NFSv3 READDIR Since before the git era, NFSD has conserved the number of pages held by each nfsd thread by combining the RPC receive and send buffers into a single array of pages. This works because there are no cases where an operation needs a large RPC Call message and a large RPC Reply message at the same time. Once an RPC Call has been received, svc_process() updates svc_rqst::rq_res to describe the part of rq_pages that can be used for constructing the Reply. This means that the send buffer (rq_res) shrinks when the received RPC record containing the RPC Call is large. A client can force this shrinkage on TCP by sending a correctly- formed RPC Call header contained in an RPC record that is excessively large. The full maximum payload size cannot be constructed in that case. Thanks to Aleksi Illikainen and Kari Hulkko for uncovering this issue.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/071a076fd1b763aa6fe478efa047e0a549ba9c22 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/279274e31270c28b86feffe5e166d4088f22317b kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/57774b1526163766403167b7bf00b136fb103761 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/640f87c190e0d1b2a0fcb2ecf6d2cd53b1c41991 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c3224826ec17f14e8bdfc86cb7e82fe52d744a7 kernel.org

Weakness Enumeration

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2022-50487
NVD Published Date:
10/04/2025
NVD Last Modified:
10/04/2025
Source:
kernel.org