CVE-2022-50555

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel <6.0.7 TIPC topsrv_accept Null Pointer Dereference

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0019
EPSS Percentile 8.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (21)
linux/Kernel 4.17.0 - 4.19.264linux
linux/Kernel 4.20.0 - 5.4.223linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.77linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.0.7linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.153linux
Linux/Linux < 4.17
Linux/Linux 0ef897be12b8b4cf297b6016e79ec97ec90f2cf6 - 24b129aed8730e48f47d852d58d76825ab6f407c
Linux/Linux 0ef897be12b8b4cf297b6016e79ec97ec90f2cf6 - 32a3d4660b34ce49ac0162338ebe362098e2f5df
Linux/Linux 0ef897be12b8b4cf297b6016e79ec97ec90f2cf6 - 7a939503fc32bff4ed60800b73ff7fbb4aea2142
Linux/Linux 0ef897be12b8b4cf297b6016e79ec97ec90f2cf6 - 82cb4e4612c633a9ce320e1773114875604a3cce
... and 11 more
Published Oct 07, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026