Bug 2400757 (CVE-2022-50433) - CVE-2022-50433 kernel: efi: ssdt: Don't free memory if ACPI table was loaded successfully
Summary: CVE-2022-50433 kernel: efi: ssdt: Don't free memory if ACPI table was loaded ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-50433
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-10-01 12:05 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-10-01 20:46 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-01 12:05:46 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

efi: ssdt: Don't free memory if ACPI table was loaded successfully

Amadeusz reports KASAN use-after-free errors introduced by commit
3881ee0b1edc ("efi: avoid efivars layer when loading SSDTs from
variables"). The problem appears to be that the memory that holds the
new ACPI table is now freed unconditionally, instead of only when the
ACPI core reported a failure to load the table.

So let's fix this, by omitting the kfree() on success.


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