CVE-2022-50780

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
24/12/2025
Last modified:
24/12/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> net: fix UAF issue in nfqnl_nf_hook_drop() when ops_init() failed<br /> <br /> When the ops_init() interface is invoked to initialize the net, but<br /> ops-&gt;init() fails, data is released. However, the ptr pointer in<br /> net-&gt;gen is invalid. In this case, when nfqnl_nf_hook_drop() is invoked<br /> to release the net, invalid address access occurs.<br /> <br /> The process is as follows:<br /> setup_net()<br /> ops_init()<br /> data = kzalloc(...) ---&gt; alloc "data"<br /> net_assign_generic() ---&gt; assign "date" to ptr in net-&gt;gen<br /> ...<br /> ops-&gt;init() ---&gt; failed<br /> ...<br /> kfree(data); ---&gt; ptr in net-&gt;gen is invalid<br /> ...<br /> ops_exit_list()<br /> ...<br /> nfqnl_nf_hook_drop()<br /> *q = nfnl_queue_pernet(net) ---&gt; q is invalid<br /> <br /> The following is the Call Trace information:<br /> BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in nfqnl_nf_hook_drop+0x264/0x280<br /> Read of size 8 at addr ffff88810396b240 by task ip/15855<br /> Call Trace:<br /> <br /> dump_stack_lvl+0x8e/0xd1<br /> print_report+0x155/0x454<br /> kasan_report+0xba/0x1f0<br /> nfqnl_nf_hook_drop+0x264/0x280<br /> nf_queue_nf_hook_drop+0x8b/0x1b0<br /> __nf_unregister_net_hook+0x1ae/0x5a0<br /> nf_unregister_net_hooks+0xde/0x130<br /> ops_exit_list+0xb0/0x170<br /> setup_net+0x7ac/0xbd0<br /> copy_net_ns+0x2e6/0x6b0<br /> create_new_namespaces+0x382/0xa50<br /> unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0xa6/0x1c0<br /> ksys_unshare+0x3a4/0x7e0<br /> __x64_sys_unshare+0x2d/0x40<br /> do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80<br /> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0<br /> <br /> <br /> Allocated by task 15855:<br /> kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40<br /> kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30<br /> __kasan_kmalloc+0xa1/0xb0<br /> __kmalloc+0x49/0xb0<br /> ops_init+0xe7/0x410<br /> setup_net+0x5aa/0xbd0<br /> copy_net_ns+0x2e6/0x6b0<br /> create_new_namespaces+0x382/0xa50<br /> unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0xa6/0x1c0<br /> ksys_unshare+0x3a4/0x7e0<br /> __x64_sys_unshare+0x2d/0x40<br /> do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80<br /> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0<br /> <br /> Freed by task 15855:<br /> kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40<br /> kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30<br /> kasan_save_free_info+0x2a/0x40<br /> ____kasan_slab_free+0x155/0x1b0<br /> slab_free_freelist_hook+0x11b/0x220<br /> __kmem_cache_free+0xa4/0x360<br /> ops_init+0xb9/0x410<br /> setup_net+0x5aa/0xbd0<br /> copy_net_ns+0x2e6/0x6b0<br /> create_new_namespaces+0x382/0xa50<br /> unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0xa6/0x1c0<br /> ksys_unshare+0x3a4/0x7e0<br /> __x64_sys_unshare+0x2d/0x40<br /> do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80<br /> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

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