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FKIE_CVE-2022-49814

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-05-01 15:16 - Updated: 2026-08-04 10:17

Severity

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
4.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kcm: close race conditions on sk_receive_queue sk->sk_receive_queue is protected by skb queue lock, but for KCM sockets its RX path takes mux->rx_lock to protect more than just skb queue. However, kcm_recvmsg() still only grabs the skb queue lock, so race conditions still exist. We can teach kcm_recvmsg() to grab mux->rx_lock too but this would introduce a potential performance regression as struct kcm_mux can be shared by multiple KCM sockets. So we have to enforce skb queue lock in requeue_rx_msgs() and handle skb peek case carefully in kcm_wait_data(). Fortunately, skb_recv_datagram() already handles it nicely and is widely used by other sockets, we can just switch to skb_recv_datagram() after getting rid of the unnecessary sock lock in kcm_recvmsg() and kcm_splice_read(). Side note: SOCK_DONE is not used by KCM sockets, so it is safe to get rid of this check too. I ran the original syzbot reproducer for 30 min without seeing any issue.

References

URL	Tags
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22f6b5d47396b4287662668ee3f5c1f766cb4259	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4154b6afa2bd639214ff259d912faad984f7413a	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5121197ecc5db58c07da95eb1ff82b98b121a221	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf92e54597d842da127c59833b365d6faeeaf020	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce57d6474ae999a3b2d442314087473a646a65c7	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d9ad4de92e184b19bcae4da10dac0275abf83931	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f7b0e95071bb4be4b811af3f0bfc3e200eedeaa3	Patch

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	6.1
linux	linux_kernel	6.1
linux	linux_kernel	6.1
linux	linux_kernel	6.1
linux	linux_kernel	6.1

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CVE-2022-49814 (GCVE-0-2022-49814)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-01 14:09 – Updated: 2026-08-05 08:56

Title

kcm: close race conditions on sk_receive_queue

Summary

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Assigner

Linux mitre root Scorecard

References

7 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22f6b5d47396b4287…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d9ad4de92e184b19b…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce57d6474ae999a3b…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4154b6afa2bd63921…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f7b0e95071bb4be4b…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf92e54597d842da1…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5121197ecc5db58c0…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: ab7ac4eb9832e32a09f4e8042705484d2fb0aad3 , < 22f6b5d47396b4287662668ee3f5c1f766cb4259 (git) Affected: ab7ac4eb9832e32a09f4e8042705484d2fb0aad3 , < d9ad4de92e184b19bcae4da10dac0275abf83931 (git) Affected: ab7ac4eb9832e32a09f4e8042705484d2fb0aad3 , < ce57d6474ae999a3b2d442314087473a646a65c7 (git) Affected: ab7ac4eb9832e32a09f4e8042705484d2fb0aad3 , < 4154b6afa2bd639214ff259d912faad984f7413a (git) Affected: ab7ac4eb9832e32a09f4e8042705484d2fb0aad3 , < f7b0e95071bb4be4b811af3f0bfc3e200eedeaa3 (git) Affected: ab7ac4eb9832e32a09f4e8042705484d2fb0aad3 , < bf92e54597d842da127c59833b365d6faeeaf020 (git) Affected: ab7ac4eb9832e32a09f4e8042705484d2fb0aad3 , < 5121197ecc5db58c07da95eb1ff82b98b121a221 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 4.6 Unaffected: 0 , < 4.6 (semver) Unaffected: 4.14.300 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver) Unaffected: 4.19.267 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.4.225 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.156 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.80 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.0.10 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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