CVE-2022-50219

HIGH

Linux Kernel 5.7-5.10.137, 5.11-5.15.60, 5.16-5.18.17, 5.19.0-5.19.1 - Use-After-Free in BPF Link Detach

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0019
EPSS Percentile 8.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-416
Status published
Products (17)
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.61linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 5.18.18linux
linux/Kernel 5.19.0 - 5.19.2linux
linux/Kernel 5.7.0 - 5.10.138linux
Linux/Linux < 5.7
Linux/Linux 5.10.138 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.15.61 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 5.18.18 - 5.18.*
Linux/Linux 5.19.2 - 5.19.*
Linux/Linux 5.7
... and 7 more
Published Jun 18, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026