# CVE-2022-50697: mrp: introduce active flags to prevent UAF when applicant uninit

> A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel MRP module allows attackers to cause a system crash or potentially execute arbitrary code.

- **Severity:** High 7.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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:** 24 Dec 2025
- **Updated:** 15 Oct 2026
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50697, GHSA-9xfq-qg8q-q648, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50697

## What is CVE-2022-50697?

CVE-2022-50697 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux, published on 24 Dec 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:

mrp: introduce active flags to prevent UAF when applicant uninit

The caller of del_timer_sync must prevent restarting of the timer, If
we have no this synchronization, there is a small probability that the
cancellation will not be successful.

And syzbot report the fellowing crash:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in hlist_add_head include/linux/list.h:929 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in enqueue_timer+0x18/0xa4 kernel/time/timer.c:605
Write at addr f9ff000024df6058 by task syz-fuzzer/2256
Pointer tag: [f9], memory tag: [fe]

CPU: 1 PID: 2256 Comm: syz-fuzzer Not tainted 6.1.0-rc5-syzkaller-00008-
ge01d50cbd6ee #0
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
Call trace:
 dump_backtrace.part.0+0xe0/0xf0 arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:156
 dump_backtrace arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:162 [inline]
 show_stack+0x18/0x40 arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:163
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x68/0x84 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:284 [inline]
 print_report+0x1a8/0x4a0 mm/kasan/report.c:395
 kasan_report+0x94/0xb4 mm/kasan/report.c:495
 __do_kernel_fault+0x164/0x1e0 arch/arm64/mm/fault.c:320
 do_bad_area arch/arm64/mm/fault.c:473 [inline]
 do_tag_check_fault+0x78/0x8c arch/arm64/mm/fault.c:749
 do_mem_abort+0x44/0x94 arch/arm64/mm/fault.c:825
 el1_abort+0x40/0x60 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:367
 el1h_64_sync_handler+0xd8/0xe4 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:427
 el1h_64_sync+0x64/0x68 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:576
 hlist_add_head include/linux/list.h:929 [inline]
 enqueue_timer+0x18/0xa4 kernel/time/timer.c:605
 mod_timer+0x14/0x20 kernel/time/timer.c:1161
 mrp_periodic_timer_arm net/802/mrp.c:614 [inline]
 mrp_periodic_timer+0xa0/0xc0 net/802/mrp.c:627
 call_timer_fn.constprop.0+0x24/0x80 kernel/time/timer.c:1474
 expire_timers+0x98/0xc4 kernel/time/timer.c:1519

To fix it, we can introduce a new active flags to make sure the timer will
not restart.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-50697?


## How do I fix CVE-2022-50697?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2022-50697 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50697 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-50697 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-50697 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux, published on 24 Dec 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-2022-50697 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux. 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-2022-50697/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-50697/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50697
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-50697
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-50697

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-50697/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.