CVE-2022-49939

HIGH

Linux Kernel < 4.14.293, 4.15.0-5.19.8 Use-After-Free in Binder

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: binder: fix UAF of ref->proc caused by race condition A transaction of type BINDER_TYPE_WEAK_HANDLE can fail to increment the reference for a node. In this case, the target proc normally releases the failed reference upon close as expected. However, if the target is dying in parallel the call will race with binder_deferred_release(), so the target could have released all of its references by now leaving the cleanup of the new failed reference unhandled. The transaction then ends and the target proc gets released making the ref->proc now a dangling pointer. Later on, ref->node is closed and we attempt to take spin_lock(&ref->proc->inner_lock), which leads to the use-after-free bug reported below. Let's fix this by cleaning up the failed reference on the spot instead of relying on the target to do so. ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in _raw_spin_lock+0xa8/0x150 Write of size 4 at addr ffff5ca207094238 by task kworker/1:0/590 CPU: 1 PID: 590 Comm: kworker/1:0 Not tainted 5.19.0-rc8 #10 Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) Workqueue: events binder_deferred_func Call trace: dump_backtrace.part.0+0x1d0/0x1e0 show_stack+0x18/0x70 dump_stack_lvl+0x68/0x84 print_report+0x2e4/0x61c kasan_report+0xa4/0x110 kasan_check_range+0xfc/0x1a4 __kasan_check_write+0x3c/0x50 _raw_spin_lock+0xa8/0x150 binder_deferred_func+0x5e0/0x9b0 process_one_work+0x38c/0x5f0 worker_thread+0x9c/0x694 kthread+0x188/0x190 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

Scores

CVSS v3 7.0
EPSS 0.0013
EPSS Percentile 2.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-362 CWE-416
Status published
Products (24)
linux/Kernel 4.14.0 - 4.14.293linux
linux/Kernel 4.15.0 - 4.19.258linux
linux/Kernel 4.20.0 - 5.4.213linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.66linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 5.19.8linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.142linux
Linux/Linux < 4.14
Linux/Linux 372e3147df7016ebeaa372939e8774a1292db558 - 06e5b43ca4dab06a92bf4c2f33766e6fb11b880a
Linux/Linux 372e3147df7016ebeaa372939e8774a1292db558 - 229f47603dd306bc0eb1a831439adb8e48bb0eae
Linux/Linux 372e3147df7016ebeaa372939e8774a1292db558 - 30d0901b307f27d36b2655fb3048cf31ee0e89c0
... and 14 more
Published Jun 18, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026