CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-49814
4.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-05-01
- Last modified
- 2026-08-04
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
kcm: close race conditions on sk_receive_queue
sk->sk_receive_queue is protected by skb queue lock, but for KCM
sockets its RX path takes mux->rx_lock to protect more than just
skb queue. However, kcm_recvmsg() still only grabs the skb queue
lock, so race conditions still exist.
We can teach kcm_recvmsg() to grab mux->rx_lock too but this would
introduce a potential performance regression as struct kcm_mux can
be shared by multiple KCM sockets.
So we have to enforce skb queue lock in requeue_rx_msgs() and handle
skb peek case carefully in kcm_wait_data(). Fortunately,
skb_recv_datagram() already handles it nicely and is widely used by
other sockets, we can just switch to skb_recv_datagram() after
getting rid of the unnecessary sock lock in kcm_recvmsg() and
kcm_splice_read(). Side note: SOCK_DONE is not used by KCM sockets,
so it is safe to get rid of this check too.
I ran the original syzbot reproducer for 30 min without seeing any
issue.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.6 < 4.14.300)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.267)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.225)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.156)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.80)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.0.10)
• linux linux kernel 6.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22f6b5d47396b4287662668ee3f5c1f766cb4259 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4154b6afa2bd639214ff259d912faad984f7413a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5121197ecc5db58c07da95eb1ff82b98b121a221 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf92e54597d842da127c59833b365d6faeeaf020 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce57d6474ae999a3b2d442314087473a646a65c7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d9ad4de92e184b19bcae4da10dac0275abf83931 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f7b0e95071bb4be4b811af3f0bfc3e200eedeaa3 Patch