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High · 7.8 CVE-2022-50259 EUVD-2022-55493GHSA-jq2f-5728-j337

bpf, sockmap: fix race in sock_map_free()

Published Sep 15, 2025 · Updated Oct 15, 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-azure 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-6.11 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-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-6.11 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-6.11 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 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-6.11 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-nvidia-tegra-5.15 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-6.11 Package: linux-oem-6.5 Package: linux-oem-6.8 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 Package: linux-xilinx-zynqmp Platform: Linux Ecosystem: Debian Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Description

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

bpf, sockmap: fix race in sock_map_free()

sock_map_free() calls release_sock(sk) without owning a reference
on the socket. This can cause use-after-free as syzbot found [1]

Jakub Sitnicki already took care of a similar issue
in sock_hash_free() in commit 75e68e5bf2c7 ("bpf, sockhash:
Synchronize delete from bucket list on map free")

[1]
refcount_t: decrement hit 0; leaking memory.
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 3785 at lib/refcount.c:31 refcount_warn_saturate+0x17c/0x1a0 lib/refcount.c:31
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 3785 Comm: kworker/u4:6 Not tainted 6.1.0-rc7-syzkaller-00103-gef4d3ea40565 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/26/2022
Workqueue: events_unbound bpf_map_free_deferred
RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0x17c/0x1a0 lib/refcount.c:31
Code: 68 8b 31 c0 e8 75 71 15 fd 0f 0b e9 64 ff ff ff e8 d9 6e 4e fd c6 05 62 9c 3d 0a 01 48 c7 c7 80 bb 68 8b 31 c0 e8 54 71 15 fd <0f> 0b e9 43 ff ff ff 89 d9 80 e1 07 80 c1 03 38 c1 0f 8c a2 fe ff
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000456fb60 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: eae59bab72dcd700 RBX: 0000000000000004 RCX: ffff8880207057c0
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000201 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 0000000000000004 R08: ffffffff816fdabd R09: fffff520008adee5
R10: fffff520008adee5 R11: 1ffff920008adee4 R12: 0000000000000004
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff88807b1c6c00 R15: 1ffff1100f638dcf
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b9800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000001b30c30000 CR3: 000000000d08e000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__refcount_dec include/linux/refcount.h:344 [inline]
refcount_dec include/linux/refcount.h:359 [inline]
__sock_put include/net/sock.h:779 [inline]
tcp_release_cb+0x2d0/0x360 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:1092
release_sock+0xaf/0x1c0 net/core/sock.c:3468
sock_map_free+0x219/0x2c0 net/core/sock_map.c:356
process_one_work+0x81c/0xd10 kernel/workqueue.c:2289
worker_thread+0xb14/0x1330 kernel/workqueue.c:2436
kthread+0x266/0x300 kernel/kthread.c:376
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:306
</TASK>

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 5.4.14 – < 5.4.229, 5.5 5.4.229

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 6.1.4-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.1.4-1 —
Debian 12 linux 6.1.4-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Nvidia-BlueField 22.04 LTS linux-bluefield 5.15.0-1015.17 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-intel +9 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux +1 5.15.0-69.76 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws 5.15.0-1033.37 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure 5.15.0-1035.42 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-fde 5.15.0-1035.42.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp 5.15.0-1031.38 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gke +1 5.15.0-1030.35 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gkeop 5.15.0-1017.22 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-ibm 5.15.0-1027.30 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg 5.15.0-1027.32 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia 5.15.0-1023.23 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oracle 5.15.0-1032.38 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-raspi 5.15.0-1026.28 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux 5.4.0-144.161 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-aws 5.4.0-1097.105 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-aws-5.15 5.15.0-1033.37~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-azure 5.4.0-1104.110 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-azure-5.15 5.15.0-1035.42~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-bluefield 5.4.0-1059.65 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gcp 5.4.0-1101.110 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gcp-5.15 5.15.0-1031.38~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-hwe-5.15 +1 5.15.0-69.76~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-ibm 5.4.0-1045.50 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg-5.15 5.15.0-1027.32~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-iot 5.4.0-1013.15 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-kvm 5.4.0-1087.93 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15 5.15.0-1014.14~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-oracle 5.4.0-1094.103 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-oracle-5.15 5.15.0-1032.38~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-raspi 5.4.0-1081.92 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-riscv-5.15 5.15.0-1030.34~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-xilinx-zynqmp 5.4.0-1022.26 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-aws-5.4 5.4.0-1097.105~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-azure-5.4 5.4.0-1104.110~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp-5.4 5.4.0-1101.110~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-hwe-5.4 5.4.0-144.161~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-ibm-5.4 5.4.0-1045.50~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-oracle-5.4 5.4.0-1094.103~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-raspi-5.4 5.4.0-1081.92~18.04.1 —
Show 4 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-intel-iot-realtime 5.15.0-1023.28 —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-realtime 5.15.0-1034.37 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 20.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-aws-fips 5.4.0-1099.107+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-azure-fips 5.4.0-1104.110+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-fips 5.4.0-1073.82 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-gcp-fips 5.4.0-1101.110+fips1 —

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