CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-50555
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-10-07
- 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])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tipc: fix a null-ptr-deref in tipc_topsrv_accept
syzbot found a crash in tipc_topsrv_accept:
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]
Workqueue: tipc_rcv tipc_topsrv_accept
RIP: 0010:kernel_accept+0x22d/0x350 net/socket.c:3487
Call Trace:
<TASK>
tipc_topsrv_accept+0x197/0x280 net/tipc/topsrv.c:460
process_one_work+0x991/0x1610 kernel/workqueue.c:2289
worker_thread+0x665/0x1080 kernel/workqueue.c:2436
kthread+0x2e4/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:376
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:306
It was caused by srv->listener that might be set to null by
tipc_topsrv_stop() in net .exit whereas it's still used in
tipc_topsrv_accept() worker.
srv->listener is protected by srv->idr_lock in tipc_topsrv_stop(), so add
a check for srv->listener under srv->idr_lock in tipc_topsrv_accept() to
avoid the null-ptr-deref. To ensure the lsock is not released during the
tipc_topsrv_accept(), move sock_release() after tipc_topsrv_work_stop()
where it's waiting until the tipc_topsrv_accept worker to be done.
Note that sk_callback_lock is used to protect sk->sk_user_data instead of
srv->listener, and it should check srv in tipc_topsrv_listener_data_ready()
instead. This also ensures that no more tipc_topsrv_accept worker will be
started after tipc_conn_close() is called in tipc_topsrv_stop() where it
sets sk->sk_user_data to null.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.17 < 4.19.264)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.223)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.153)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.77)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.0.7)
• linux linux kernel 6.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24b129aed8730e48f47d852d58d76825ab6f407c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32a3d4660b34ce49ac0162338ebe362098e2f5df Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a939503fc32bff4ed60800b73ff7fbb4aea2142 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82cb4e4612c633a9ce320e1773114875604a3cce Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce69bdac2310152bb70845024d5d704c52aabfc3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cedb41664e27b2cae7e21487f1bee22dcd84037d Patch