CVE-2022-50048

high

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nf_tables: possible module reference underflow in error path dst->ops is set on when nft_expr_clone() fails, but module refcount has not been bumped yet, therefore nft_expr_destroy() leads to module reference underflow.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c485c35ff6783ccd12c160fcac6a0e504e83e0bf

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b59bee8b05b0e789b5a298cacb09e8aaa3367a29

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e52e6cfec6342c3d0df47dc3a76724fb3dabf56

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: 7.1

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00017