# CVE-2022-50819: udmabuf: Set ubuf->sg = NULL if the creation of sg table fails

> A local attacker can trigger a kernel crash by closing a dmabuf file descriptor after a failed memory allocation, causing a denial of service.

- **Severity:** Not scored
- **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:** 30 Dec 2025
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50819, GHSA-9gc9-2wr3-7fvp, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50819

## What is CVE-2022-50819?

CVE-2022-50819 is a vulnerability in Linux, published on 30 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:

udmabuf: Set ubuf->sg = NULL if the creation of sg table fails

When userspace tries to map the dmabuf and if for some reason
(e.g. OOM) the creation of the sg table fails, ubuf->sg needs to be
set to NULL. Otherwise, when the userspace subsequently closes the
dmabuf fd, we'd try to erroneously free the invalid sg table from
release_udmabuf resulting in the following crash reported by syzbot:

general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address
0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]
CPU: 0 PID: 3609 Comm: syz-executor487 Not tainted
5.19.0-syzkaller-13930-g7ebfc85e2cd7 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS
Google 07/22/2022
RIP: 0010:dma_unmap_sgtable include/linux/dma-mapping.h:378 [inline]
RIP: 0010:put_sg_table drivers/dma-buf/udmabuf.c:89 [inline]
RIP: 0010:release_udmabuf+0xcb/0x4f0 drivers/dma-buf/udmabuf.c:114
Code: 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 80 3c 02 00 0f 85 2b 04 00 00 48 8d 7d 0c 4c
8b 63 30 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <0f> b6 14
02 48 89 f8 83 e0 07 83 c0 03 38 d0 7c 08 84 d2 0f 85 e2
RSP: 0018:ffffc900037efd30 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffffffff8cb67800 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff84ad27e0 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: fffffffffffffff4 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 000000000008c07c R12: ffff88801fa05000
R13: ffff888073db07e8 R14: ffff888025c25440 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000555555fc4300(0000) GS:ffff8880b9a00000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fc1c0ce06e4 CR3: 00000000715e6000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dma_buf_release+0x157/0x2d0 drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c:78
 __dentry_kill+0x42b/0x640 fs/dcache.c:612
 dentry_kill fs/dcache.c:733 [inline]
 dput+0x806/0xdb0 fs/dcache.c:913
 __fput+0x39c/0x9d0 fs/file_table.c:333
 task_work_run+0xdd/0x1a0 kernel/task_work.c:177
 ptrace_notify+0x114/0x140 kernel/signal.c:2353
 ptrace_report_syscall include/linux/ptrace.h:420 [inline]
 ptrace_report_syscall_exit include/linux/ptrace.h:482 [inline]
 syscall_exit_work kernel/entry/common.c:249 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x129/0x280 kernel/entry/common.c:276
 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:281 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x9/0x50 kernel/entry/common.c:294
 do_syscall_64+0x42/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:86
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
RIP: 0033:0x7fc1c0c35b6b
Code: 0f 05 48 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 45 c3 0f 1f 40 00 48 83 ec 18 89 7c 24
0c e8 63 fc ff ff 8b 7c 24 0c 41 89 c0 b8 03 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00
f0 ff ff 77 35 44 89 c7 89 44 24 0c e8 a1 fc ff ff 8b 44
RSP: 002b:00007ffd78a06090 EFLAGS: 00000293 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000003
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000007 RCX: 00007fc1c0c35b6b
RDX: 0000000020000280 RSI: 0000000040086200 RDI: 0000000000000006
RBP: 0000000000000007 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000293 R12: 000000000000000c
R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 00007fc1c0cfe4a0 R15: 00007ffd78a06140
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:dma_unmap_sgtable include/linux/dma-mapping.h:378 [inline]
RIP: 0010:put_sg_table drivers/dma-buf/udmabuf.c:89 [inline]
RIP: 0010:release_udmabuf+0xcb/0x4f0 drivers/dma-buf/udmabuf.c:114

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-50819?


## How do I fix CVE-2022-50819?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2022-50819 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50819 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-50819 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-50819 is a vulnerability in Linux, published on 30 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-2022-50819 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-2022-50819/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-50819/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50819
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-50819
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-50819

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-50819/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.