Bug 2400780 (CVE-2022-50423) - CVE-2022-50423 kernel: ACPICA: Fix use-after-free in acpi_ut_copy_ipackage_to_ipackage()
Summary: CVE-2022-50423 kernel: ACPICA: Fix use-after-free in acpi_ut_copy_ipackage_to...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-50423
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-10-01 12:06 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-10-01 19:47 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-01 12:06:59 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ACPICA: Fix use-after-free in acpi_ut_copy_ipackage_to_ipackage()

There is an use-after-free reported by KASAN:

  BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in acpi_ut_remove_reference+0x3b/0x82
  Read of size 1 at addr ffff888112afc460 by task modprobe/2111
  CPU: 0 PID: 2111 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 6.1.0-rc7-dirty
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996),
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   kasan_report+0xae/0xe0
   acpi_ut_remove_reference+0x3b/0x82
   acpi_ut_copy_iobject_to_iobject+0x3be/0x3d5
   acpi_ds_store_object_to_local+0x15d/0x3a0
   acpi_ex_store+0x78d/0x7fd
   acpi_ex_opcode_1A_1T_1R+0xbe4/0xf9b
   acpi_ps_parse_aml+0x217/0x8d5
   ...
   </TASK>

The root cause of the problem is that the acpi_operand_object
is freed when acpi_ut_walk_package_tree() fails in
acpi_ut_copy_ipackage_to_ipackage(), lead to repeated release in
acpi_ut_copy_iobject_to_iobject(). The problem was introduced
by "8aa5e56eeb61" commit, this commit is to fix memory leak in
acpi_ut_copy_iobject_to_iobject(), repeatedly adding remove
operation, lead to "acpi_operand_object" used after free.

Fix it by removing acpi_ut_remove_reference() in
acpi_ut_copy_ipackage_to_ipackage(). acpi_ut_copy_ipackage_to_ipackage()
is called to copy an internal package object into another internal
package object, when it fails, the memory of acpi_operand_object
should be freed by the caller.


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