CVE-2022-50655
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
09/12/2025
Last modified:
09/12/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
ppp: associate skb with a device at tx<br />
<br />
Syzkaller triggered flow dissector warning with the following:<br />
<br />
r0 = openat$ppp(0xffffffffffffff9c, &(0x7f0000000000), 0xc0802, 0x0)<br />
ioctl$PPPIOCNEWUNIT(r0, 0xc004743e, &(0x7f00000000c0))<br />
ioctl$PPPIOCSACTIVE(r0, 0x40107446, &(0x7f0000000240)={0x2, &(0x7f0000000180)=[{0x20, 0x0, 0x0, 0xfffff034}, {0x6}]})<br />
pwritev(r0, &(0x7f0000000040)=[{&(0x7f0000000140)=&#39;\x00!&#39;, 0x2}], 0x1, 0x0, 0x0)<br />
<br />
[ 9.485814] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 329 at net/core/flow_dissector.c:1016 __skb_flow_dissect+0x1ee0/0x1fa0<br />
[ 9.485929] skb_get_poff+0x53/0xa0<br />
[ 9.485937] bpf_skb_get_pay_offset+0xe/0x20<br />
[ 9.485944] ? ppp_send_frame+0xc2/0x5b0<br />
[ 9.485949] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x40/0x60<br />
[ 9.485958] ? __ppp_xmit_process+0x7a/0xe0<br />
[ 9.485968] ? ppp_xmit_process+0x5b/0xb0<br />
[ 9.485974] ? ppp_write+0x12a/0x190<br />
[ 9.485981] ? do_iter_write+0x18e/0x2d0<br />
[ 9.485987] ? __import_iovec+0x30/0x130<br />
[ 9.485997] ? do_pwritev+0x1b6/0x240<br />
[ 9.486016] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0x47/0x50<br />
[ 9.486023] ? __x64_sys_pwritev+0x24/0x30<br />
[ 9.486026] ? do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x80<br />
[ 9.486031] ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd<br />
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Flow dissector tries to find skb net namespace either via device<br />
or via socket. Neigher is set in ppp_send_frame, so let&#39;s manually<br />
use ppp->dev.
Impact
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/148dcbd3af039ae39c3af697a3183008c7995805
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18dc946360bfe0de016a59e3cc3ee1f450fceb9d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/30f186978e87bef2f22ed349010d3e23271e8d44
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b8f3b939266c90f03b7cc7e26a4c28c7b64137b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7da524781c531ebaf2f94c9dc4c541b82edecfed
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f225444467b98579cf28d94f4ad053460dfdb84
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c2a698ff156974908308f42cf5991ab5c0c4b8cd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e387a25552951802102e279931d6f7dd2ecc34c1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee678b1f52f9439e930db2db3fd7e345d03e1a50



