{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2025-09-18T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: NFS: Fix an Oops in nfs_d_automount()",
    "id" : "2396432",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2396432"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "5.1",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-476",
  "details" : [ "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\nNFS: Fix an Oops in nfs_d_automount()\nWhen mounting from a NFSv4 referral, path->dentry can end up being a\nnegative dentry, so derive the struct nfs_server from the dentry\nitself instead." ],
  "statement" : "The bug in nfs_d_automount() causes a NULL-pointer dereference when handling NFSv4 referrals if the path dentry is negative.\nA malicious or misconfigured NFS server could trigger a client-side oops during automount, leading to a denial of service (no confidentiality/integrity impact).",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2023-11-14T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2023:7077",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-513.5.1.el8_9"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2023-05-09T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2023:2458",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2023-05-09T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2023:2458",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Fix deferred",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Fix deferred",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Fix deferred",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Fix deferred",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50385\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-50385\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025091852-CVE-2022-50385-7787@gregkh/T" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2022-50385",
  "csaw" : false
}