# CVE-2022-50092: dm thin: fix use-after-free crash in dm_sm_register_threshold_callback

> A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's device-mapper thin provisioning allows local attackers to cause a system crash.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 18 Jun 2025
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50092, GHSA-93qw-f7pr-wpxr, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50092

## What is CVE-2022-50092?

CVE-2022-50092 is a medium-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 18 Jun 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

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

dm thin: fix use-after-free crash in dm_sm_register_threshold_callback

Fault inject on pool metadata device reports:
  BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in dm_pool_register_metadata_threshold+0x40/0x80
  Read of size 8 at addr ffff8881b9d50068 by task dmsetup/950

  CPU: 7 PID: 950 Comm: dmsetup Tainted: G        W         5.19.0-rc6 #1
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-1.fc33 04/01/2014
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x44
   print_address_description.constprop.0.cold+0xeb/0x3f4
   kasan_report.cold+0xe6/0x147
   dm_pool_register_metadata_threshold+0x40/0x80
   pool_ctr+0xa0a/0x1150
   dm_table_add_target+0x2c8/0x640
   table_load+0x1fd/0x430
   ctl_ioctl+0x2c4/0x5a0
   dm_ctl_ioctl+0xa/0x10
   __x64_sys_ioctl+0xb3/0xd0
   do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

This can be easily reproduced using:
  echo offline > /sys/block/sda/device/state
  dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/thin bs=4k count=10
  dmsetup load pool --table "0 20971520 thin-pool /dev/sda /dev/sdb 128 0 0"

If a metadata commit fails, the transaction will be aborted and the
metadata space maps will be destroyed. If a DM table reload then
happens for this failed thin-pool, a use-after-free will occur in
dm_sm_register_threshold_callback (called from
dm_pool_register_metadata_threshold).

Fix this by in dm_pool_register_metadata_threshold() by returning the
-EINVAL error if the thin-pool is in fail mode. Also fail pool_ctr()
with a new error message: "Error registering metadata threshold".

Weakness: CWE-416 (Use After Free)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-50092?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-50092?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2022-50092 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50092 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-50092 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-50092 is a medium-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 18 Jun 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50092 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-50092/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-50092/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50092
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-50092
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-50092

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