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High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Sep 15, 2025· Updated Aug 4, 2026

CVE-2022-50243

CVE-2022-50243

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

sctp: handle the error returned from sctp_auth_asoc_init_active_key

When it returns an error from sctp_auth_asoc_init_active_key(), the active_key is actually not updated. The old sh_key will be freeed while it's still used as active key in asoc. Then an use-after-free will be triggered when sending patckets, as found by syzbot:

sctp_auth_shkey_hold+0x22/0xa0 net/sctp/auth.c:112 sctp_set_owner_w net/sctp/socket.c:132 [inline] sctp_sendmsg_to_asoc+0xbd5/0x1a20 net/sctp/socket.c:1863 sctp_sendmsg+0x1053/0x1d50 net/sctp/socket.c:2025 inet_sendmsg+0x99/0xe0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:819 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline] sock_sendmsg+0xcf/0x120 net/socket.c:734

This patch is to fix it by not replacing the sh_key when it returns errors from sctp_auth_asoc_init_active_key() in sctp_auth_set_key(). For sctp_auth_set_active_key(), old active_key_id will be set back to asoc->active_key_id when the same thing happens.

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  • Linux/Kernel9 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 8 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=4.19.199,<4.19.262
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.14:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.14:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.14:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.14:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.14:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.14:rc7:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)
    • (no CPE)range: 5.14
  • osv-coords
    Range: < 4.19.262

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