Bug 2373594 (CVE-2022-50007) - CVE-2022-50007 kernel: xfrm: fix refcount leak in __xfrm_policy_check()
Summary: CVE-2022-50007 kernel: xfrm: fix refcount leak in __xfrm_policy_check()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-50007
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-06-18 12:09 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-06-19 07:12 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-06-18 12:09:50 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

xfrm: fix refcount leak in __xfrm_policy_check()

The issue happens on an error path in __xfrm_policy_check(). When the
fetching process of the object `pols[1]` fails, the function simply
returns 0, forgetting to decrement the reference count of `pols[0]`,
which is incremented earlier by either xfrm_sk_policy_lookup() or
xfrm_policy_lookup(). This may result in memory leaks.

Fix it by decreasing the reference count of `pols[0]` in that path.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-06-19 07:02:06 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025061830-CVE-2022-50007-95d2@gregkh/T


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