CVE-2022-50661

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50661
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-50661.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-50661
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-12-09T01:29:09.498Z
Modified
2026-03-12T03:26:44.235560Z
Summary
seccomp: Move copy_seccomp() to no failure path.
Details

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

seccomp: Move copy_seccomp() to no failure path.

Our syzbot instance reported memory leaks in doseccomp() [0], similar to the report [1]. It shows that we miss freeing struct seccompfilter and some objects included in it.

We can reproduce the issue with the program below [2] which calls one seccomp() and two clone() syscalls.

The first clone()d child exits earlier than its parent and sends a signal to kill it during the second clone(), more precisely before the fatalsignalpending() test in copyprocess(). When the parent receives the signal, it has to destroy the embryonic process and return -EINTR to user space. In the failure path, we have to call seccompfilter_release() to decrement the filter's refcount.

Initially, we called it in freetask() called from the failure path, but the commit 3a15fb6ed92c ("seccomp: release filter after task is fully dead") moved it to releasetask() to notify user space as early as possible that the filter is no longer used.

To keep the change and current seccomp refcount semantics, let's move copyseccomp() just after the signal check and add a WARNONONCE() in freetask() for future debugging.

comm "reproseccomp", pid 230, jiffies 4294687090 (age 9.914s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................ backtrace: doseccomp (./include/linux/slab.h:600 ./include/linux/slab.h:733 kernel/seccomp.c:666 kernel/seccomp.c:708 kernel/seccomp.c:1871 kernel/seccomp.c:1991) dosyscall64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80) entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry64.S:120) unreferenced object 0xffffc90000035000 (size 4096): comm "reproseccomp", pid 230, jiffies 4294687090 (age 9.915s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 05 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: __vmallocnoderange (mm/vmalloc.c:3226) _vmallocnode (mm/vmalloc.c:3261 (discriminator 4)) bpfprogallocnostats (kernel/bpf/core.c:91) bpfprogalloc (kernel/bpf/core.c:129) bpfprogcreatefromuser (net/core/filter.c:1414) doseccomp (kernel/seccomp.c:671 kernel/seccomp.c:708 kernel/seccomp.c:1871 kernel/seccomp.c:1991) dosyscall64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80) entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry64.S:120) unreferenced object 0xffff888003fa1000 (size 1024): comm "reproseccomp", pid 230, jiffies 4294687090 (age 9.915s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: bpfprogallocnostats (./include/linux/slab.h:600 ./include/linux/slab.h:733 kernel/bpf/core.c:95) bpfprogalloc (kernel/bpf/core.c:129) bpfprogcreatefromuser (net/core/filter.c:1414) doseccomp (kernel/seccomp.c:671 kernel/seccomp.c:708 kernel/seccomp.c:1871 kernel/seccomp.c:1991) dosyscall64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80) entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry64.S:120) unreferenced object 0xffff888006360240 (size 16): comm "reproseccomp", pid 230, jiffies 4294687090 (age 9.915s) hex dump (first 16 bytes): 01 00 37 00 76 65 72 6c e0 83 01 06 80 88 ff ff ..7.verl........ backtrace: bpfprogstoreorigfilter (net/core/filter.c:1137) bpfprogcreatefromuser (net/core/filter.c:1428) doseccomp (kernel/seccomp.c:671 kernel/seccomp.c:708 kernel/seccomp.c:1871 kernel/seccomp.c:1991) dosyscall64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80) entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry64.S:120) unreferenced object 0xffff888 ---truncated---

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/50xxx/CVE-2022-50661.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
3a15fb6ed92cb32b0a83f406aa4a96f28c9adbc3
Fixed
d4a895e924b486f2a38463114509e1088ef4d7f5
Fixed
a31a647a3d1073a642c5bbe3457731fb353cb980
Fixed
29a69fa075d0577eff1137426669de21187ec182
Fixed
5b81f0c6c60e35bf8153230ddfb03ebb14e17986
Fixed
a1140cb215fa13dcec06d12ba0c3ee105633b7c4

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-50661.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.9.0
Fixed
5.10.180
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
5.15.86
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.0.16
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.1.0
Fixed
6.1.2

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-50661.json"