CVE-2022-50363 skmsg: pass gfp argument to alloc_sk_msg()

What is CVE-2022-50363?

CVE-2022-50363 is a critical use after free vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 17 Sep 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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

skmsg: pass gfp argument to alloc_sk_msg()

syzbot found that alloc_sk_msg() could be called from a non sleepable context. sk_psock_verdict_recv() uses rcu_read_lock() protection.

We need the callers to pass a gfp_t argument to avoid issues.

syzbot report was:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/linux/sched/mm.h:274 in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 3613, name: syz-executor414 preempt_count: 0, expected: 0 RCU nest depth: 1, expected: 0 INFO: lockdep is turned off. CPU: 0 PID: 3613 Comm: syz-executor414 Not tainted 6.0.0-syzkaller-09589-g55be6084c8e0 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/22/2022 Call Trace: <TASK> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x1e3/0x2cb lib/dump_stack.c:106 __might_resched+0x538/0x6a0 kernel/sched/core.c:9877 might_alloc include/linux/sched/mm.h:274 [inline] slab_pre_alloc_hook mm/slab.h:700 [inline] slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3162 [inline] slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3256 [inline] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x59/0x310 mm/slub.c:3287 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:600 [inline] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:733 [inline] alloc_sk_msg net/core/skmsg.c:507 [inline] sk_psock_skb_ingress_self+0x5c/0x330 net/core/skmsg.c:600 sk_psock_verdict_apply+0x395/0x440 net/core/skmsg.c:1014 sk_psock_verdict_recv+0x34d/0x560 net/core/skmsg.c:1201 tcp_read_skb+0x4a1/0x790 net/ipv4/tcp.c:1770 tcp_rcv_established+0x129d/0x1a10 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:5971 tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x479/0xac0 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:1681 sk_backlog_rcv include/net/sock.h:1109 [inline] __release_sock+0x1d8/0x4c0 net/core/sock.c:2906 release_sock+0x5d/0x1c0 net/core/sock.c:3462 tcp_sendmsg+0x36/0x40 net/ipv4/tcp.c:1483 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline] sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:734 [inline] __sys_sendto+0x46d/0x5f0 net/socket.c:2117 __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2129 [inline] __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2125 [inline] __x64_sys_sendto+0xda/0xf0 net/socket.c:2125 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x2b/0x70 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-50363?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2022-50363?

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-2022-50363 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50363 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-2022-50363, GHSA-4h52-q6mh-w82h, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50363.