{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50873 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2022-50873 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."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2022-50873 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2022-50873 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.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50873 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. 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.\n2. 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.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-50873/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-50873/index.md)","id":"CVE-2022-50873","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-50873/index.md","name":"CVE-2022-50873","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50873","GHSA-39pj-4mfg-vcvw","UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50873"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A local attacker can trigger a kernel crash by exploiting a wrong pointer free in the vp_vdpa driver, causing a denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvdpa/vp_vdpa: fix kfree a wrong pointer in vp_vdpa_remove\n\nIn vp_vdpa_remove(), the code kfree(\u0026vp_vdpa_mgtdev-\u003emgtdev.id_table) uses\na reference of pointer as the argument of kfree, which is the wrong pointer\nand then may hit crash like this:\n\nUnable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00ffff003363e30c\nInternal error: Oops: 96000004 [#1] SMP\nCall trace:\n rb_next+0x20/0x5c\n ext4_readdir+0x494/0x5c4 [ext4]\n iterate_dir+0x168/0x1b4\n __se_sys_getdents64+0x68/0x170\n __arm64_sys_getdents64+0x24/0x30\n el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x7c/0x1bc\n do_el0_svc+0x2c/0x94\n el0_svc+0x20/0x30\n el0_sync_handler+0xb0/0xb4\n el0_sync+0x160/0x180\nCode: 54000220 f9400441 b4000161 aa0103e0 (f9400821)\nSMP: stopping secondary CPUs\nStarting crashdump kernel...","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"vdpa/vp_vdpa: fix kfree a wrong pointer in vp_vdpa_remove","id":"CVE-2022-50873","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2022"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"RDMA/erdma: Fix refcount leak in erdma_mmap","id":"CVE-2022-50874"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"ARM: OMAP2+: Fix memory leak in realtime_counter_init()","id":"CVE-2022-50872"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-12-30","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A local attacker can trigger a kernel crash by exploiting a wrong pointer free in the vp_vdpa driver, causing a denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-50873/"}