CVE-2022-49012

kernel: afs: Fix server->active leak in afs_put_server

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

2.3

CVSS 3.1

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Published · October 21, 2024

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

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

afs: Fix server->active leak in afs_put_server

The atomic_read was accidentally replaced with atomic_inc_return, which prevents the server from getting cleaned up and causes rmmod to hang with a warning:

Can't purge s=00000001

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 2.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE-459 · Incomplete Cleanup