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High · 7.8 CVE-2022-49939 EUVD-2022-55189GHSA-6q3v-9ww3-wjw7

binder: fix UAF of ref->proc caused by race condition

Published Jun 18, 2025 · Updated Aug 5, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

Vendor: Linux Product: Linux Package: linux Package: linux Package: linux-allwinner-5.19 Package: linux-aws Package: linux-aws-5.0 Package: linux-aws-5.11 Package: linux-aws-5.13 Package: linux-aws-5.15 Package: linux-aws-5.19 Package: linux-aws-5.3 Package: linux-aws-5.4 Package: linux-aws-5.8 Package: linux-aws-6.2 Package: linux-aws-6.5 Package: linux-aws-fips Package: linux-aws-hwe Package: linux-azure Package: linux-azure-4.15 Package: linux-azure-5.11 Package: linux-azure-5.13 Package: linux-azure-5.15 Package: linux-azure-5.19 Package: linux-azure-5.3 Package: linux-azure-5.4 Package: linux-azure-5.8 Package: linux-azure-6.2 Package: linux-azure-6.5 Package: linux-azure-edge Package: linux-azure-fde Package: linux-azure-fde-5.19 Package: linux-azure-fde-6.2 Package: linux-azure-fips Package: linux-bluefield Package: linux-fips Package: linux-gcp Package: linux-gcp-4.15 Package: linux-gcp-5.11 Package: linux-gcp-5.13 Package: linux-gcp-5.15 Package: linux-gcp-5.19 Package: linux-gcp-5.3 Package: linux-gcp-5.4 Package: linux-gcp-5.8 Package: linux-gcp-6.2 Package: linux-gcp-6.5 Package: linux-gcp-fips Package: linux-gke Package: linux-gke-4.15 Package: linux-gke-5.15 Package: linux-gke-5.4 Package: linux-gkeop Package: linux-gkeop-5.15 Package: linux-gkeop-5.4 Package: linux-hwe Package: linux-hwe-5.11 Package: linux-hwe-5.13 Package: linux-hwe-5.15 Package: linux-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-hwe-5.4 Package: linux-hwe-5.8 Package: linux-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-hwe-edge Package: linux-ibm Package: linux-ibm-5.4 Package: linux-intel-5.13 Package: linux-intel-iot-realtime Package: linux-intel-iotg Package: linux-intel-iotg-5.15 Package: linux-iot Package: linux-kvm Package: linux-lowlatency Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-nvidia Package: linux-nvidia-6.2 Package: linux-nvidia-6.5 Package: linux-oem Package: linux-oem-5.10 Package: linux-oem-5.13 Package: linux-oem-5.14 Package: linux-oem-5.17 Package: linux-oem-5.6 Package: linux-oem-6.0 Package: linux-oem-6.1 Package: linux-oem-6.5 Package: linux-oracle Package: linux-oracle-5.0 Package: linux-oracle-5.11 Package: linux-oracle-5.13 Package: linux-oracle-5.15 Package: linux-oracle-5.3 Package: linux-oracle-5.4 Package: linux-oracle-5.8 Package: linux-oracle-6.5 Package: linux-raspi Package: linux-raspi-5.4 Package: linux-raspi-realtime Package: linux-raspi2 Package: linux-realtime Package: linux-riscv Package: linux-riscv-5.11 Package: linux-riscv-5.15 Package: linux-riscv-5.19 Package: linux-riscv-5.8 Package: linux-riscv-6.5 Package: linux-starfive-5.19 Package: linux-starfive-6.2 Package: linux-starfive-6.5 Package: linux-vmware Platform: Linux Ecosystem: Debian Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Description

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

binder: fix UAF of ref->proc caused by race condition

A transaction of type BINDER_TYPE_WEAK_HANDLE can fail to increment the
reference for a node. In this case, the target proc normally releases
the failed reference upon close as expected. However, if the target is
dying in parallel the call will race with binder_deferred_release(), so
the target could have released all of its references by now leaving the
cleanup of the new failed reference unhandled.

The transaction then ends and the target proc gets released making the
ref->proc now a dangling pointer. Later on, ref->node is closed and we
attempt to take spin_lock(&ref->proc->inner_lock), which leads to the
use-after-free bug reported below. Let's fix this by cleaning up the
failed reference on the spot instead of relying on the target to do so.

==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in _raw_spin_lock+0xa8/0x150
Write of size 4 at addr ffff5ca207094238 by task kworker/1:0/590

CPU: 1 PID: 590 Comm: kworker/1:0 Not tainted 5.19.0-rc8 #10
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
Workqueue: events binder_deferred_func
Call trace:
dump_backtrace.part.0+0x1d0/0x1e0
show_stack+0x18/0x70
dump_stack_lvl+0x68/0x84
print_report+0x2e4/0x61c
kasan_report+0xa4/0x110
kasan_check_range+0xfc/0x1a4
__kasan_check_write+0x3c/0x50
_raw_spin_lock+0xa8/0x150
binder_deferred_func+0x5e0/0x9b0
process_one_work+0x38c/0x5f0
worker_thread+0x9c/0x694
kthread+0x188/0x190
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 4.14 4.14.293

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 5.19.11-1 —
Debian 13 linux 5.19.11-1 —
Debian 12 linux 5.19.11-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv +2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux +1 5.15.0-57.63 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws 5.15.0-1027.31 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure 5.15.0-1030.37 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-fde 5.15.0-1030.37.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp 5.15.0-1026.33 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gke 5.15.0-1024.29 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gkeop 5.15.0-1012.16 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-ibm 5.15.0-1022.25 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg 5.15.0-1023.28 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-kvm 5.15.0-1025.30 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia 5.15.0-1015.15 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oracle 5.15.0-1026.32 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-raspi 5.15.0-1022.24 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux 5.4.0-136.153 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-aws 5.4.0-1093.101 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-aws-5.15 +1 5.15.0-1027.31~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-azure 5.4.0-1100.106 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-azure-5.15 5.15.0-1030.37~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-bluefield 5.4.0-1054.60 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gcp 5.4.0-1097.106 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gcp-5.15 5.15.0-1027.34~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-hwe-5.15 5.15.0-57.63~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-ibm 5.4.0-1041.46 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg-5.15 5.15.0-1023.28~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-iot 5.4.0-1010.12 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-kvm 5.4.0-1083.89 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15 5.15.0-58.64~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-oracle 5.4.0-1091.100 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-oracle-5.15 5.15.0-1027.33~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-raspi 5.4.0-1078.89 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux 4.15.0-201.212 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-aws 4.15.0-1147.159 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-aws-5.4 5.4.0-1093.102~18.04.2 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-azure-4.15 4.15.0-1158.173 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-azure-5.4 5.4.0-1100.106~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp-4.15 4.15.0-1142.158 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp-5.4 5.4.0-1097.106~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-hwe-5.4 5.4.0-136.153~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-ibm-5.4 5.4.0-1041.46~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-kvm 4.15.0-1133.138 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-oracle 4.15.0-1112.123 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-oracle-5.4 5.4.0-1091.100~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-raspi-5.4 5.4.0-1078.89~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-realtime 5.15.0-1029.32 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 20.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 18.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-aws-fips 5.4.0-1093.101+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-azure-fips 5.4.0-1100.106+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-fips 5.4.0-1069.78 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-gcp-fips 5.4.0-1097.106+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 18.04 LTS linux-aws-fips 4.15.0-2087.93 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 18.04 LTS linux-azure-fips 4.15.0-2067.73 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 18.04 LTS linux-fips 4.15.0-1104.115 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 18.04 LTS linux-gcp-fips 4.15.0-2052.57 —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux-aws-hwe 4.15.0-1147.159~16.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux-azure 4.15.0-1159.174~16.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux-gcp 4.15.0-1142.158~16.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux-hwe 4.15.0-201.212~16.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux-oracle 4.15.0-1112.123~16.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS linux-azure 4.15.0-1158.173~14.04.1 —

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