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High · 7.8 CVE-2022-50064 EUVD-2022-55335GHSA-q25w-pv7x-x34v

virtio-blk: Avoid use-after-free on suspend/resume

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

Vendor: Linux Product: Linux Package: linux Package: linux-allwinner-5.19 Package: linux-aws-5.0 Package: linux-aws-5.11 Package: linux-aws-5.13 Package: linux-aws-5.19 Package: linux-aws-5.3 Package: linux-aws-5.8 Package: linux-aws-6.2 Package: linux-aws-6.5 Package: linux-azure Package: linux-azure-5.11 Package: linux-azure-5.13 Package: linux-azure-5.19 Package: linux-azure-5.3 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-gcp Package: linux-gcp-5.11 Package: linux-gcp-5.13 Package: linux-gcp-5.19 Package: linux-gcp-5.3 Package: linux-gcp-5.8 Package: linux-gcp-6.2 Package: linux-gcp-6.5 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-5.19 Package: linux-hwe-5.8 Package: linux-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-hwe-edge Package: linux-intel-5.13 Package: linux-intel-iot-realtime Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5 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-5.0 Package: linux-oracle-5.11 Package: linux-oracle-5.13 Package: linux-oracle-5.3 Package: linux-oracle-5.8 Package: linux-oracle-6.5 Package: linux-raspi-realtime Package: linux-raspi2 Package: linux-realtime Package: linux-riscv Package: linux-riscv-5.11 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 Platform: Linux Ecosystem: Debian Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Description

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

virtio-blk: Avoid use-after-free on suspend/resume

hctx->user_data is set to vq in virtblk_init_hctx(). However, vq is
freed on suspend and reallocated on resume. So, hctx->user_data is
invalid after resume, and it will cause use-after-free accessing which
will result in the kernel crash something like below:

[ 22.428391] Call Trace:
[ 22.428899] <TASK>
[ 22.429339] virtqueue_add_split+0x3eb/0x620
[ 22.430035] ? __blk_mq_alloc_requests+0x17f/0x2d0
[ 22.430789] ? kvm_clock_get_cycles+0x14/0x30
[ 22.431496] virtqueue_add_sgs+0xad/0xd0
[ 22.432108] virtblk_add_req+0xe8/0x150
[ 22.432692] virtio_queue_rqs+0xeb/0x210
[ 22.433330] blk_mq_flush_plug_list+0x1b8/0x280
[ 22.434059] __blk_flush_plug+0xe1/0x140
[ 22.434853] blk_finish_plug+0x20/0x40
[ 22.435512] read_pages+0x20a/0x2e0
[ 22.436063] ? folio_add_lru+0x62/0xa0
[ 22.436652] page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x112/0x160
[ 22.437365] filemap_get_pages+0xe1/0x5b0
[ 22.437964] ? context_to_sid+0x70/0x100
[ 22.438580] ? sidtab_context_to_sid+0x32/0x400
[ 22.439979] filemap_read+0xcd/0x3d0
[ 22.440917] xfs_file_buffered_read+0x4a/0xc0
[ 22.441984] xfs_file_read_iter+0x65/0xd0
[ 22.442970] __kernel_read+0x160/0x2e0
[ 22.443921] bprm_execve+0x21b/0x640
[ 22.444809] do_execveat_common.isra.0+0x1a8/0x220
[ 22.446008] __x64_sys_execve+0x2d/0x40
[ 22.446920] do_syscall_64+0x37/0x90
[ 22.447773] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

This patch fixes this issue by getting vq from vblk, and removes
virtblk_init_hctx().

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 5.19 5.19.4

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 6.0.2-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.0.2-1 —
Debian 12 linux 6.0.2-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv +2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
RHEL 9 bpftool 7.2.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583
RHEL 9 rv +64 5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583

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