CVE-2022-50043
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
18/06/2025
Last modified:
18/06/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
net: fix potential refcount leak in ndisc_router_discovery()<br />
<br />
The issue happens on specific paths in the function. After both the<br />
object `rt` and `neigh` are grabbed successfully, when `lifetime` is<br />
nonzero but the metric needs change, the function just deletes the<br />
route and set `rt` to NULL. Then, it may try grabbing `rt` and `neigh`<br />
again if above conditions hold. The function simply overwrite `neigh`<br />
if succeeds or returns if fails, without decreasing the reference<br />
count of previous `neigh`. This may result in memory leaks.<br />
<br />
Fix it by decrementing the reference count of `neigh` in place.