CVE-2022-50234Incomplete Cleanup in Linux

CWE-459Incomplete Cleanup5 documents5 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 95.63%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedSep 15

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring/af_unix: defer registered files gc to io_uring release Instead of putting io_uring's registered files in unix_gc() we want it to be done by io_uring itself. The trick here is to consider io_uring registered files for cycle detection but not actually putting them down. Because io_uring can't register other ring instances, this will remove all refs to the ring file triggering the ->release path and clean up with io_ring

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages4 packages

NVDlinux/linux_kernel5.15.4.220+4
Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 5.10.158-1+3
CVEListV5linux/linux6b06314c47e141031be043539900d80d2c7ba10f04df9719df1865f6770af9bc7880874af0e594b2+6
debiandebian/linux< linux 6.0.3-1 (bookworm)

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
OSV
CVE-2022-50234: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring/af_unix: defer registered files gc to io_uring release Instead of putting2025-09-15
GHSA
GHSA-qhp4-v642-v3xp: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring/af_unix: defer registered files gc to io_uring release Instead of putti2025-09-15

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: Linux kernel: Denial of Service due to improper io_uring/af_unix file cleanup2025-09-15
Debian
CVE-2022-50234: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring/af...2022
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