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CVE-2022-49097 (GCVE-0-2022-49097)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-26 01:54 – Updated: 2026-05-11 18:53
VLAI
Title
NFS: Avoid writeback threads getting stuck in mempool_alloc()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFS: Avoid writeback threads getting stuck in mempool_alloc() In a low memory situation, allow the NFS writeback code to fail without getting stuck in infinite loops in mempool_alloc().
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 2b17d725f9be59a1bfa0583af690c463fca1f385 , < c74e2f6ecc51bd08bb5b0335477dba954a50592e (git)
Affected: 2b17d725f9be59a1bfa0583af690c463fca1f385 , < ea029e4ce760f786919d06ef52efa2e50ea92a5f (git)
Affected: 2b17d725f9be59a1bfa0583af690c463fca1f385 , < 1b3fa9a3c420c31e77b406ddc28f3a627100516c (git)
Affected: 2b17d725f9be59a1bfa0583af690c463fca1f385 , < a6caeddd68977a1aaaf62fbd1955b41dd5c3c5d3 (git)
Affected: 2b17d725f9be59a1bfa0583af690c463fca1f385 , < 0bae835b63c53f86cdc524f5962e39409585b22c (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.3
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.3 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.111 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.34 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.16.20 , ≤ 5.16.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.17.3 , ≤ 5.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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