CVE-2022-50459 (GCVE-0-2022-50459)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-01 11:45 – Updated: 2026-08-05 08:58
VLAI
Title
scsi: iscsi: iscsi_tcp: Fix null-ptr-deref while calling getpeername()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: iscsi: iscsi_tcp: Fix null-ptr-deref while calling getpeername() Fix a NULL pointer crash that occurs when we are freeing the socket at the same time we access it via sysfs. The problem is that: 1. iscsi_sw_tcp_conn_get_param() and iscsi_sw_tcp_host_get_param() take the frwd_lock and do sock_hold() then drop the frwd_lock. sock_hold() does a get on the "struct sock". 2. iscsi_sw_tcp_release_conn() does sockfd_put() which does the last put on the "struct socket" and that does __sock_release() which sets the sock->ops to NULL. 3. iscsi_sw_tcp_conn_get_param() and iscsi_sw_tcp_host_get_param() then call kernel_getpeername() which accesses the NULL sock->ops. Above we do a get on the "struct sock", but we needed a get on the "struct socket". Originally, we just held the frwd_lock the entire time but in commit bcf3a2953d36 ("scsi: iscsi: iscsi_tcp: Avoid holding spinlock while calling getpeername()") we switched to refcount based because the network layer changed and started taking a mutex in that path, so we could no longer hold the frwd_lock. Instead of trying to maintain multiple refcounts, this just has us use a mutex for accessing the socket in the interface code paths.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6641 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: bcf3a2953d36bbfb9bd44ccb3db0897d935cc485 , < 884a788f065578bb640382279a83d1df433b13e6 (git)
Affected: bcf3a2953d36bbfb9bd44ccb3db0897d935cc485 , < a26b0658751bb0a3b28386fca715333b104d32a2 (git)
Affected: bcf3a2953d36bbfb9bd44ccb3db0897d935cc485 , < 897dbbc57d71e8a34ec1af8e573a142de457da38 (git)
Affected: bcf3a2953d36bbfb9bd44ccb3db0897d935cc485 , < 0a0b861fce2657ba08ec356a74346b37ca4b2008 (git)
Affected: bcf3a2953d36bbfb9bd44ccb3db0897d935cc485 , < 57569c37f0add1b6489e1a1563c71519daf732cf (git)
Affected: 7d29e950766327f658cb92722b9445ac3b3ae023 (git)
Affected: 5.8.14 , < 5.9 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.9
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.9 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.150 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.75 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.19.17 , ≤ 5.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0.3 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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          }
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        "vulnStatus": "Modified",
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            "description": [
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                "value": "CWE-476"
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    "redhat_vex": {
      "aggregate_severity": "Moderate",
      "current_release_date": "2026-11-05T10:17:23+00:00",
      "cve": "CVE-2022-50459",
      "id": "CVE-2022-50459",
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      "product_status:known_not_affected": "1",
      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
      "title": "kernel: scsi: iscsi: iscsi_tcp: Fix null-ptr-deref while calling getpeername()",
      "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2022/cve-2022-50459.json",
      "version": "3"
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  }
}



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