Bug 2373517 (CVE-2022-50219) - CVE-2022-50219 kernel: bpf: Fix KASAN use-after-free Read in compute_effective_progs
Summary: CVE-2022-50219 kernel: bpf: Fix KASAN use-after-free Read in compute_effectiv...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-50219
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-06-18 12:06 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-06-19 19:15 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-06-18 12:06:30 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf: Fix KASAN use-after-free Read in compute_effective_progs

Syzbot found a Use After Free bug in compute_effective_progs().
The reproducer creates a number of BPF links, and causes a fault
injected alloc to fail, while calling bpf_link_detach on them.
Link detach triggers the link to be freed by bpf_link_free(),
which calls __cgroup_bpf_detach() and update_effective_progs().
If the memory allocation in this function fails, the function restores
the pointer to the bpf_cgroup_link on the cgroup list, but the memory
gets freed just after it returns. After this, every subsequent call to
update_effective_progs() causes this already deallocated pointer to be
dereferenced in prog_list_length(), and triggers KASAN UAF error.

To fix this issue don't preserve the pointer to the prog or link in the
list, but remove it and replace it with a dummy prog without shrinking
the table. The subsequent call to __cgroup_bpf_detach() or
__cgroup_bpf_detach() will correct it.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-06-19 19:06:05 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025061846-CVE-2022-50219-a138@gregkh/T


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