Bug 2395299 (CVE-2022-50295) - CVE-2022-50295 kernel: io_uring/msg_ring: Fix NULL pointer dereference in io_msg_send_fd()
Summary: CVE-2022-50295 kernel: io_uring/msg_ring: Fix NULL pointer dereference in io_...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-50295
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-09-15 15:06 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-09-16 12:52 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-09-15 15:06:12 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

io_uring/msg_ring: Fix NULL pointer dereference in io_msg_send_fd()

Syzkaller produced the below call trace:

 BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in io_msg_ring+0x3cb/0x9f0
 Write of size 8 at addr 0000000000000070 by task repro/16399

 CPU: 0 PID: 16399 Comm: repro Not tainted 6.1.0-rc1 #28
 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.11.0-2.el7
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134
  ? io_msg_ring+0x3cb/0x9f0
  kasan_report+0xbc/0xf0
  ? io_msg_ring+0x3cb/0x9f0
  kasan_check_range+0x140/0x190
  io_msg_ring+0x3cb/0x9f0
  ? io_msg_ring_prep+0x300/0x300
  io_issue_sqe+0x698/0xca0
  io_submit_sqes+0x92f/0x1c30
  __do_sys_io_uring_enter+0xae4/0x24b0
....
 RIP: 0033:0x7f2eaf8f8289
 RSP: 002b:00007fff40939718 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000001aa
 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f2eaf8f8289
 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000006f71 RDI: 0000000000000004
 RBP: 00007fff409397a0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000039
 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00000000004006d0
 R13: 00007fff40939880 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
  </TASK>
 Kernel panic - not syncing: panic_on_warn set ...

We don't have a NULL check on file_ptr in io_msg_send_fd() function,
so when file_ptr is NUL src_file is also NULL and get_file()
dereferences a NULL pointer and leads to above crash.

Add a NULL check to fix this issue.


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