Bug 2425048 (CVE-2022-50725) - CVE-2022-50725 kernel: media: vidtv: Fix use-after-free in vidtv_bridge_dvb_init()
Summary: CVE-2022-50725 kernel: media: vidtv: Fix use-after-free in vidtv_bridge_dvb_i...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-50725
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-12-24 13:04 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-06-29 18:19 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-24 13:04:38 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

media: vidtv: Fix use-after-free in vidtv_bridge_dvb_init()

KASAN reports a use-after-free:
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in dvb_dmxdev_release+0x4d5/0x5d0 [dvb_core]
Call Trace:
 ...
 dvb_dmxdev_release+0x4d5/0x5d0 [dvb_core]
 vidtv_bridge_probe+0x7bf/0xa40 [dvb_vidtv_bridge]
 platform_probe+0xb6/0x170
 ...
Allocated by task 1238:
 ...
 dvb_register_device+0x1a7/0xa70 [dvb_core]
 dvb_dmxdev_init+0x2af/0x4a0 [dvb_core]
 vidtv_bridge_probe+0x766/0xa40 [dvb_vidtv_bridge]
 ...
Freed by task 1238:
 dvb_register_device+0x6d2/0xa70 [dvb_core]
 dvb_dmxdev_init+0x2af/0x4a0 [dvb_core]
 vidtv_bridge_probe+0x766/0xa40 [dvb_vidtv_bridge]
 ...

It is because the error handling in vidtv_bridge_dvb_init() is wrong.

First, vidtv_bridge_dmx(dev)_init() will clean themselves when fail, but
goto fail_dmx(_dev): calls release functions again, which causes
use-after-free.

Also, in fail_fe, fail_tuner_probe and fail_demod_probe, j = i will cause
out-of-bound when i finished its loop (i == NUM_FE). And the loop
releasing is wrong, although now NUM_FE is 1 so it won't cause problem.

Fix this by correctly releasing everything.


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