Bug 2425204 (CVE-2022-50780) - CVE-2022-50780 kernel: net: fix UAF issue in nfqnl_nf_hook_drop() when ops_init() failed
Summary: CVE-2022-50780 kernel: net: fix UAF issue in nfqnl_nf_hook_drop() when ops_in...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-50780
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 14:10 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-12-24 18:58 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-24 14:10:39 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: fix UAF issue in nfqnl_nf_hook_drop() when ops_init() failed

When the ops_init() interface is invoked to initialize the net, but
ops->init() fails, data is released. However, the ptr pointer in
net->gen is invalid. In this case, when nfqnl_nf_hook_drop() is invoked
to release the net, invalid address access occurs.

The process is as follows:
setup_net()
	ops_init()
		data = kzalloc(...)   ---> alloc "data"
		net_assign_generic()  ---> assign "date" to ptr in net->gen
		...
		ops->init()           ---> failed
		...
		kfree(data);          ---> ptr in net->gen is invalid
	...
	ops_exit_list()
		...
		nfqnl_nf_hook_drop()
			*q = nfnl_queue_pernet(net) ---> q is invalid

The following is the Call Trace information:
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in nfqnl_nf_hook_drop+0x264/0x280
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88810396b240 by task ip/15855
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x8e/0xd1
print_report+0x155/0x454
kasan_report+0xba/0x1f0
nfqnl_nf_hook_drop+0x264/0x280
nf_queue_nf_hook_drop+0x8b/0x1b0
__nf_unregister_net_hook+0x1ae/0x5a0
nf_unregister_net_hooks+0xde/0x130
ops_exit_list+0xb0/0x170
setup_net+0x7ac/0xbd0
copy_net_ns+0x2e6/0x6b0
create_new_namespaces+0x382/0xa50
unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0xa6/0x1c0
ksys_unshare+0x3a4/0x7e0
__x64_sys_unshare+0x2d/0x40
do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
</TASK>

Allocated by task 15855:
kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40
kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30
__kasan_kmalloc+0xa1/0xb0
__kmalloc+0x49/0xb0
ops_init+0xe7/0x410
setup_net+0x5aa/0xbd0
copy_net_ns+0x2e6/0x6b0
create_new_namespaces+0x382/0xa50
unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0xa6/0x1c0
ksys_unshare+0x3a4/0x7e0
__x64_sys_unshare+0x2d/0x40
do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

Freed by task 15855:
kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40
kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30
kasan_save_free_info+0x2a/0x40
____kasan_slab_free+0x155/0x1b0
slab_free_freelist_hook+0x11b/0x220
__kmem_cache_free+0xa4/0x360
ops_init+0xb9/0x410
setup_net+0x5aa/0xbd0
copy_net_ns+0x2e6/0x6b0
create_new_namespaces+0x382/0xa50
unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0xa6/0x1c0
ksys_unshare+0x3a4/0x7e0
__x64_sys_unshare+0x2d/0x40
do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0


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