# CVE-2022-49058: cifs: potential buffer overflow in handling symlinks

- Severity: CVSS 9.1 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-02-26 · Updated: 2026-08-05

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 2.6.37

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: potential buffer overflow in handling symlinks Smatch printed a warning: arch/x86/crypto/poly1305_glue.c:198 poly1305_update_arch() error: __memcpy() 'dctx->buf' too small (16 vs u32max) It's caused because Smatch marks 'link_len' as untrusted since it comes from sscanf(). Add a check to ensure that 'link_len' is not larger than the size of the 'link_str' buffer.

## What to do

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## Related

- Browse: [Critical entries](https://cve.now/critical.md) · [Linux kernel](https://cve.now/tech/linux-kernel.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e582749e742e662a8e9bb37cffac62dccaaa1e2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1316c28569a80ab3596eeab05bf5e01991e7e739
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb5f51756944735ac70cd8bb38637cc202e29c91
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22d658c6c5affed10c8907e67160cef0b6c92186
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e166a41180be2f1e66bbb6d46448e80a9a5ec05
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9901b07ba42b39266b34a888e48d7306fd707bee
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/515e7ba11ef043d6febe69389949c8ef5f25e9d0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64c4a37ac04eeb43c42d272f6e6c8c12bfcf4304

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