CVE-2022-50555

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50555
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-50555.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-50555
Downstream
Published
2025-10-07T15:21:16Z
Modified
2026-08-12T03:51:12Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
tipc: fix a null-ptr-deref in tipc_topsrv_accept
Details

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

tipc: fix a null-ptr-deref in tipc_topsrv_accept

syzbot found a crash in tipc_topsrv_accept:

KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f] Workqueue: tipc_rcv tipc_topsrv_accept RIP: 0010:kernel_accept+0x22d/0x350 net/socket.c:3487 Call Trace: tipc_topsrv_accept+0x197/0x280 net/tipc/topsrv.c:460 process_one_work+0x991/0x1610 kernel/workqueue.c:2289 worker_thread+0x665/0x1080 kernel/workqueue.c:2436 kthread+0x2e4/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:376 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:306

It was caused by srv->listener that might be set to null by tipc_topsrv_stop() in net .exit whereas it's still used in tipc_topsrv_accept() worker.

srv->listener is protected by srv->idr_lock in tipc_topsrv_stop(), so add a check for srv->listener under srv->idr_lock in tipc_topsrv_accept() to avoid the null-ptr-deref. To ensure the lsock is not released during the tipc_topsrv_accept(), move sock_release() after tipc_topsrv_work_stop() where it's waiting until the tipc_topsrv_accept worker to be done.

Note that sk_callback_lock is used to protect sk->sk_user_data instead of srv->listener, and it should check srv in tipc_topsrv_listener_data_ready() instead. This also ensures that no more tipc_topsrv_accept worker will be started after tipc_conn_close() is called in tipc_topsrv_stop() where it sets sk->sk_user_data to null.

Database specific
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    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/50xxx/CVE-2022-50555.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
0ef897be12b8b4cf297b6016e79ec97ec90f2cf6
Fixed
ce69bdac2310152bb70845024d5d704c52aabfc3
Fixed
24b129aed8730e48f47d852d58d76825ab6f407c
Fixed
32a3d4660b34ce49ac0162338ebe362098e2f5df
Fixed
7a939503fc32bff4ed60800b73ff7fbb4aea2142
Fixed
cedb41664e27b2cae7e21487f1bee22dcd84037d
Fixed
82cb4e4612c633a9ce320e1773114875604a3cce

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-50555.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.17.0
Fixed
4.19.264
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.20.0
Fixed
5.4.223
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.5.0
Fixed
5.10.153
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
5.15.77
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.0.7

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-50555.json"