CVE-2022-50043

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50043
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-50043.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-50043
Downstream
Published
2025-06-18T11:01:44.186Z
Modified
2026-04-02T08:28:10.290038Z
Summary
net: fix potential refcount leak in ndisc_router_discovery()
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: fix potential refcount leak in ndiscrouterdiscovery()

The issue happens on specific paths in the function. After both the object rt and neigh are grabbed successfully, when lifetime is nonzero but the metric needs change, the function just deletes the route and set rt to NULL. Then, it may try grabbing rt and neigh again if above conditions hold. The function simply overwrite neigh if succeeds or returns if fails, without decreasing the reference count of previous neigh. This may result in memory leaks.

Fix it by decrementing the reference count of neigh in place.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/50xxx/CVE-2022-50043.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
6b2e04bc240fe9be9e690059f710e9f95346d34d
Fixed
ffb15594433391fd7885eb88ce5a7f7bdeefbb15
Fixed
7998043d31d000c3a93f46182e6569dd0eecda34
Fixed
7396ba87f1edf549284869451665c7c4e74ecd4f

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-50043.json"