CVE-2022-50873 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2022-50873

vdpa/vp_vdpa: fix kfree a wrong pointer in vp_vdpa_remove

Vulnerability Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vdpa/vp_vdpa: fix kfree a wrong pointer in vp_vdpa_remove In vp_vdpa_remove(), the code kfree(&vp_vdpa_mgtdev->mgtdev.id_table) uses a reference of pointer as the argument of kfree, which is the wrong pointer and then may hit crash like this: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00ffff003363e30c Internal error: Oops: 96000004 [#1] SMP Call trace: rb_next+0x20/0x5c ext4_readdir+0x494/0x5c4 [ext4] iterate_dir+0x168/0x1b4 __se_sys_getdents64+0x68/0x170 __arm64_sys_getdents64+0x24/0x30 el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x7c/0x1bc do_el0_svc+0x2c/0x94 el0_svc+0x20/0x30 el0_sync_handler+0xb0/0xb4 el0_sync+0x160/0x180 Code: 54000220 f9400441 b4000161 aa0103e0 (f9400821) SMP: stopping secondary CPUs Starting crashdump kernel...

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
ffbda8e9df10d1784d5427ec199e7d8308e3763f, 5.19, 0, 6.0.19, 6.1.5, 6.2

Timeline

Official Publish: December 30th, 2025
Last Modified: May 11th, 2026
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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