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🛡️ CVE-2022-50873 — kernel

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

vdpa/vp_vdpa: fix kfree a wrong pointer in vp_vdpa_remove

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

vdpa/vp_vdpa: fix kfree a wrong pointer in vp_vdpa_remove

In vp_vdpa_remove(), the code kfree(&vp_vdpa_mgtdev->mgtdev.id_table) uses

a reference of pointer as the argument of kfree, which is the wrong pointer

and then may hit crash like this:

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00ffff003363e30c

Internal error: Oops: 96000004 [#1] SMP

Call trace:

rb_next+0x20/0x5c

ext4_readdir+0x494/0x5c4 [ext4]

iterate_dir+0x168/0x1b4

__se_sys_getdents64+0x68/0x170

__arm64_sys_getdents64+0x24/0x30

el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x7c/0x1bc

do_el0_svc+0x2c/0x94

el0_svc+0x20/0x30

el0_sync_handler+0xb0/0xb4

el0_sync+0x160/0x180

Code: 54000220 f9400441 b4000161 aa0103e0 (f9400821)

SMP: stopping secondary CPUs

Starting crashdump kernel...

Affected software

CVE-2022-50873 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • kernel (from 6.1.0 up to 6.1.5)
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 30 December 2025 and last revised on 12 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
github.com (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
git.kernel.org (Package)

Other advisories for this package

kernel has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

CVE-2022-50873 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-12-30
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-12
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel 6.1.0 6.1.5
unknown — —

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