CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-50234

7.8 HIGH Published 2025-09-15 Modified 2026-08-04 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2025-09-15
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

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring/af_unix: defer registered files gc to io_uring release Instead of putting io_uring's registered files in unix_gc() we want it to be done by io_uring itself. The trick here is to consider io_uring registered files for cycle detection but not actually putting them down. Because io_uring can't register other ring instances, this will remove all refs to the ring file triggering the ->release path and clean up with io_ring_ctx_free(). [axboe: add kerneldoc comment to skb, fold in skb leak fix]

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 5.1 < 5.4.220) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.150) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.75) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.19.17) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.0 < 6.0.3)

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