CVE-2022-50240

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50240
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-50240.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-50240
Downstream
Published
2025-09-15T14:01:45.724Z
Modified
2026-04-02T08:28:20.941456Z
Summary
android: binder: stop saving a pointer to the VMA
Details

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

android: binder: stop saving a pointer to the VMA

Do not record a pointer to a VMA outside of the mmap_lock for later use. This is unsafe and there are a number of failure paths after the recorded VMA pointer may be freed during setup. There is no callback to the driver to clear the saved pointer from generic mm code. Furthermore, the VMA pointer may become stale if any number of VMA operations end up freeing the VMA so saving it was fragile to being with.

Instead, change the binderalloc struct to record the start address of the VMA and use vmalookup() to get the vma when needed. Add lockdep mmaplock checks on updates to the vma pointer to ensure the lock is held and depend on that lock for synchronization of readers and writers - which was already the case anyways, so the smpwmb()/smp_rmb() was not necessary.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/android/binderallocselftest.c]

Database specific
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    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/50xxx/CVE-2022-50240.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
dd2283f2605e3b3e9c61bcae844b34f2afa4813f
Fixed
27a594bc7a7c8238d239e3cdbcf2edfa3bbe9a1b
Fixed
015ac18be7de25d17d6e5f1643cb3b60bfbe859e
Fixed
622ef885a89ad04cfb76ee478fb44f051125d1f1
Fixed
925e6b6f82c9c80ab3c17acbde8d16f349da7d26
Fixed
1ec3f76a436d750fd5023caec5da0494fc2870d2
Fixed
a43cfc87caaf46710c8027a8c23b8a55f1078f19

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-50240.json"