FKIE_CVE-2022-50873

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-12-30 13:16 - Updated: 2026-06-17 05:24
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vdpa/vp_vdpa: fix kfree a wrong pointer in vp_vdpa_remove In vp_vdpa_remove(), the code kfree(&vp_vdpa_mgtdev->mgtdev.id_table) uses a reference of pointer as the argument of kfree, which is the wrong pointer and then may hit crash like this: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00ffff003363e30c Internal error: Oops: 96000004 [#1] SMP Call trace: rb_next+0x20/0x5c ext4_readdir+0x494/0x5c4 [ext4] iterate_dir+0x168/0x1b4 __se_sys_getdents64+0x68/0x170 __arm64_sys_getdents64+0x24/0x30 el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x7c/0x1bc do_el0_svc+0x2c/0x94 el0_svc+0x20/0x30 el0_sync_handler+0xb0/0xb4 el0_sync+0x160/0x180 Code: 54000220 f9400441 b4000161 aa0103e0 (f9400821) SMP: stopping secondary CPUs Starting crashdump kernel...
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ccc891f36d0c20ee220551caabdcd3886ec584b
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8fe12680b2c731201519935013ec9219c93ec540
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed843d6ed7310a27cf7c8ee0a82a482eed0cb4a6
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  "affected": [
    {
      "affectedData": [
        {
          "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
          "product": "Linux",
          "programFiles": [
            "drivers/vdpa/virtio_pci/vp_vdpa.c"
          ],
          "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
          "vendor": "Linux",
          "versions": [
            {
              "lessThan": "8fe12680b2c731201519935013ec9219c93ec540",
              "status": "affected",
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              "versionType": "git"
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          ]
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          "defaultStatus": "affected",
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            "drivers/vdpa/virtio_pci/vp_vdpa.c"
          ],
          "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
          "vendor": "Linux",
          "versions": [
            {
              "status": "affected",
              "version": "5.19"
            },
            {
              "lessThan": "5.19",
              "status": "unaffected",
              "version": "0",
              "versionType": "semver"
            },
            {
              "lessThanOrEqual": "6.0.*",
              "status": "unaffected",
              "version": "6.0.19",
              "versionType": "semver"
            },
            {
              "lessThanOrEqual": "6.1.*",
              "status": "unaffected",
              "version": "6.1.5",
              "versionType": "semver"
            },
            {
              "lessThanOrEqual": "*",
              "status": "unaffected",
              "version": "6.2",
              "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"
    }
  ],
  "cveTags": [],
  "descriptions": [
    {
      "lang": "en",
      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvdpa/vp_vdpa: fix kfree a wrong pointer in vp_vdpa_remove\n\nIn vp_vdpa_remove(), the code kfree(\u0026vp_vdpa_mgtdev-\u003emgtdev.id_table) uses\na reference of pointer as the argument of kfree, which is the wrong pointer\nand then may hit crash like this:\n\nUnable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00ffff003363e30c\nInternal error: Oops: 96000004 [#1] SMP\nCall trace:\n rb_next+0x20/0x5c\n ext4_readdir+0x494/0x5c4 [ext4]\n iterate_dir+0x168/0x1b4\n __se_sys_getdents64+0x68/0x170\n __arm64_sys_getdents64+0x24/0x30\n el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x7c/0x1bc\n do_el0_svc+0x2c/0x94\n el0_svc+0x20/0x30\n el0_sync_handler+0xb0/0xb4\n el0_sync+0x160/0x180\nCode: 54000220 f9400441 b4000161 aa0103e0 (f9400821)\nSMP: stopping secondary CPUs\nStarting crashdump kernel..."
    }
  ],
  "id": "CVE-2022-50873",
  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T05:24:19.933",
  "metrics": {},
  "published": "2025-12-30T13:16:02.263",
  "references": [
    {
      "source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ccc891f36d0c20ee220551caabdcd3886ec584b"
    },
    {
      "source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8fe12680b2c731201519935013ec9219c93ec540"
    },
    {
      "source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed843d6ed7310a27cf7c8ee0a82a482eed0cb4a6"
    }
  ],
  "sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
  "vulnStatus": "Deferred"
}


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