CVE-2022-50043

net: fix potential refcount leak in ndisc_router_discovery()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Jun 18, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Jun 18, 2025

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Description

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

net: fix potential refcount leak in ndisc_router_discovery()

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.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 6b2e04bc240fe9be9e690059f710e9f95346d34d to before ffb15594433391fd7885eb88ce5a7f7bdeefbb15Affected
  • 6b2e04bc240fe9be9e690059f710e9f95346d34d to before 7998043d31d000c3a93f46182e6569dd0eecda34Affected
  • 6b2e04bc240fe9be9e690059f710e9f95346d34d to before 7396ba87f1edf549284869451665c7c4e74ecd4fAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.12Affected
  • before 5.12Not affected
  • 5.15.63 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 5.19.4 through 5.19.*Not affected
  • 6.0 and laterNot affected

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