CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-50243
7.8 HIGH
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- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sctp: handle the error returned from sctp_auth_asoc_init_active_key
When it returns an error from sctp_auth_asoc_init_active_key(), the
active_key is actually not updated. The old sh_key will be freeed
while it's still used as active key in asoc. Then an use-after-free
will be triggered when sending patckets, as found by syzbot:
sctp_auth_shkey_hold+0x22/0xa0 net/sctp/auth.c:112
sctp_set_owner_w net/sctp/socket.c:132 [inline]
sctp_sendmsg_to_asoc+0xbd5/0x1a20 net/sctp/socket.c:1863
sctp_sendmsg+0x1053/0x1d50 net/sctp/socket.c:2025
inet_sendmsg+0x99/0xe0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:819
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]
sock_sendmsg+0xcf/0x120 net/socket.c:734
This patch is to fix it by not replacing the sh_key when it returns
errors from sctp_auth_asoc_init_active_key() in sctp_auth_set_key().
For sctp_auth_set_active_key(), old active_key_id will be set back
to asoc->active_key_id when the same thing happens.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.19.199 < 4.19.262)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.4.136 < 5.4.220)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.10.54 < 5.10.150)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.13.6 < 5.14)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.14.1 < 5.15.75)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.19.17)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.0 < 6.0.3)
• linux linux kernel 5.14
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/022152aaebe116a25c39818a07e175a8cd3c1e11 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f90099d18e3abdc01babf686f41f63fe04939c1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/19d636b663e0e92951bba5fced929ca7fd25c552 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/382ff44716603a54f5fd238ddec6a2468e217612 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b0fcf5e29c0940e1169ce9c44f73edd98bdf12d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b8fa99a3a11bdd77fef6b4a97f1021eb30b5ba40 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f65955340e0044f5c41ac799a01698ac7dee8a4e Patch