Bug 2402257 (CVE-2022-50536)

Summary:	CVE-2022-50536 kernel: bpf, sockmap: Fix repeated calls to sock_put() when msg has more_data
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Doc Text:	A reference-count flaw was found in the Linux kernel Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) sockmap implementation. When processing messages with remaining data, the same Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) socket reference could be released more than once. A local user running BPF sockmap programs could use this flaw to trigger a use-after-free and crash the system, resulting in a denial of service.	Story Points:	---
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-07 16:05:54 UTC

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf, sockmap: Fix repeated calls to sock_put() when msg has more_data

In tcp_bpf_send_verdict() redirection, the eval variable is assigned to
__SK_REDIRECT after the apply_bytes data is sent, if msg has more_data,
sock_put() will be called multiple times.

We should reset the eval variable to __SK_NONE every time more_data
starts.

This causes:

IPv4: Attempt to release TCP socket in state 1 00000000b4c925d7
------------[ cut here ]------------
refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free.
WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 4482 at lib/refcount.c:25 refcount_warn_saturate+0x7d/0x110
Modules linked in:
CPU: 5 PID: 4482 Comm: sockhash_bypass Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.0.0 #1
Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.11.0-2.el7 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __tcp_transmit_skb+0xa1b/0xb90
 ? __alloc_skb+0x8c/0x1a0
 ? __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x184/0x320
 tcp_write_xmit+0x22a/0x1110
 __tcp_push_pending_frames+0x32/0xf0
 do_tcp_sendpages+0x62d/0x640
 tcp_bpf_push+0xae/0x2c0
 tcp_bpf_sendmsg_redir+0x260/0x410
 ? preempt_count_add+0x70/0xa0
 tcp_bpf_send_verdict+0x386/0x4b0
 tcp_bpf_sendmsg+0x21b/0x3b0
 sock_sendmsg+0x58/0x70
 __sys_sendto+0xfa/0x170
 ? xfd_validate_state+0x1d/0x80
 ? switch_fpu_return+0x59/0xe0
 __x64_sys_sendto+0x24/0x30
 do_syscall_64+0x37/0x90
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

Comment 1 Jon Moroney 2025-10-07 16:34:38 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025100754-CVE-2022-50536-baea@gregkh/T