CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-50219
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-06-18
- 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])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: Fix KASAN use-after-free Read in compute_effective_progs
Syzbot found a Use After Free bug in compute_effective_progs().
The reproducer creates a number of BPF links, and causes a fault
injected alloc to fail, while calling bpf_link_detach on them.
Link detach triggers the link to be freed by bpf_link_free(),
which calls __cgroup_bpf_detach() and update_effective_progs().
If the memory allocation in this function fails, the function restores
the pointer to the bpf_cgroup_link on the cgroup list, but the memory
gets freed just after it returns. After this, every subsequent call to
update_effective_progs() causes this already deallocated pointer to be
dereferenced in prog_list_length(), and triggers KASAN UAF error.
To fix this issue don't preserve the pointer to the prog or link in the
list, but remove it and replace it with a dummy prog without shrinking
the table. The subsequent call to __cgroup_bpf_detach() or
__cgroup_bpf_detach() will correct it.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.7 < 5.10.138)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.61)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.18.18)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.19 < 5.19.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f8ca9c40e6222ce431e9ba5dae3cccce8ef9443 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3527e3cbb84d8868c4d4e91ba55915f96d39ec3d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c46091ee985ae84c60c5e95055d779fcd291d87 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6336388715afa419cc97d0255bda3bba1b96b7ca Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/be001f9da71eaa3b61e186fb88bde3279728bdca Patch