CVE-2022-50007

medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfrm: fix refcount leak in __xfrm_policy_check() The issue happens on an error path in __xfrm_policy_check(). When the fetching process of the object `pols[1]` fails, the function simply returns 0, forgetting to decrement the reference count of `pols[0]`, which is incremented earlier by either xfrm_sk_policy_lookup() or xfrm_policy_lookup(). This may result in memory leaks. Fix it by decreasing the reference count of `pols[0]` in that path.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d66c052879791313f90c0584420f196a038fb8b8

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c9cb23e00ddf45679b21b4dacc11d1ae7961ebe

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f94b933103ee1bda119543369cc18a1be5536db

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/63da7a2bbf3f28094920e0b8a17d2571a9bd842d

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/26ad2398fe4984f4f6f930bcb3bc9047fa77265b

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18e6b6e2555c93f5ca09f2b85ef1fa025c8accea

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1305d7d4f35ca6f214a2d23b075aa6a924cff3be

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0769491a8acd3e85ca4c3f65080eac2c824262df

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-06-18

Updated: 2025-06-18

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00024