Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 18, 2025
xfrm: fix refcount leak in __xfrm_policy_check()
CVE-2022-50007
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
xfrm: fix refcount leak in __xfrm_policy_check()
The issue happens on an error path in __xfrm_policy_check(). When the fetching process of the object pols[1] fails, the function simply returns 0, forgetting to decrement the reference count of pols[0], which is incremented earlier by either xfrm_sk_policy_lookup() or xfrm_policy_lookup(). This may result in memory leaks.
Fix it by decreasing the reference count of pols[0] in that path.
Affected products
10- osv-coords8 versionspkg:rpm/suse/kernel-default&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Live%20Patching%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-default&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/kernel-default&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20LTSS%20Extended%20Security%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-source&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/kernel-source&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20LTSS%20Extended%20Security%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-syms&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/kernel-syms&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20LTSS%20Extended%20Security%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP5_Update_72&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Live%20Patching%2012%20SP5
< 4.12.14-122.272.1+ 7 more
- (no CPE)range: < 4.12.14-122.272.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.12.14-122.272.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.12.14-122.272.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.12.14-122.272.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.12.14-122.272.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.12.14-122.272.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.12.14-122.272.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1-8.3.1
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
8- git.kernel.org/stable/c/0769491a8acd3e85ca4c3f65080eac2c824262dfmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/1305d7d4f35ca6f214a2d23b075aa6a924cff3bemitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/18e6b6e2555c93f5ca09f2b85ef1fa025c8acceamitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/26ad2398fe4984f4f6f930bcb3bc9047fa77265bmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/63da7a2bbf3f28094920e0b8a17d2571a9bd842dmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f94b933103ee1bda119543369cc18a1be5536dbmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c9cb23e00ddf45679b21b4dacc11d1ae7961ebemitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d66c052879791313f90c0584420f196a038fb8b8mitre
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