CVE-2022-50234
HIGHLinux Kernel 5.1-6.0.2 Use-After-Free in io_uring/af_unix
Title source: llmDescription
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]
References (6)
Core 6
Core References
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.0015
EPSS Percentile
5.0%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
Status
published
Products (20)
linux/Kernel
5.1.0 - 5.4.220linux
linux/Kernel
5.11.0 - 5.15.75linux
linux/Kernel
5.16.0 - 5.19.17linux
linux/Kernel
5.20.0 - 6.0.3linux
linux/Kernel
5.5.0 - 5.10.150linux
Linux/Linux
< 5.1
Linux/Linux
5.1
Linux/Linux
5.10.150 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux
5.15.75 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux
5.19.17 - 5.19.*
... and 10 more
Published
Sep 15, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026