CVE-2022-50192 spi: tegra20-slink: fix UAF in tegra_slink_remove()

What is CVE-2022-50192?

CVE-2022-50192 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:

spi: tegra20-slink: fix UAF in tegra_slink_remove()

After calling spi_unregister_master(), the refcount of master will be decrease to 0, and it will be freed in spi_controller_release(), the device data also will be freed, so it will lead a UAF when using 'tspi'. To fix this, get the master before unregister and put it when finish using it.

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-50192?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2022-50192?

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-2022-50192 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50192 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50192, GHSA-wqhf-3p4j-3r83, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50192.