CVE-2022-50137 RDMA/irdma: Fix a window for use-after-free

What is CVE-2022-50137?

CVE-2022-50137 is a high-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:

RDMA/irdma: Fix a window for use-after-free

During a destroy CQ an interrupt may cause processing of a CQE after CQ resources are freed by irdma_cq_free_rsrc(). Fix this by moving the call to irdma_cq_free_rsrc() after the irdma_sc_cleanup_ceqes(), which is called under the cq_lock.

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-50137?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2022-50137?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2022-50137 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50137 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50137, GHSA-9qv5-27hf-7pmq, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50137.