CVE-2022-50043
Published: Jun 18, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: fix potential refcount leak in ndisc_router_discovery() The issue happens on specific paths in the function. After both the object `rt` and `neigh` are grabbed successfully, when `lifetime` is nonzero but the metric needs change, the function just deletes the route and set `rt` to NULL. Then, it may try grabbing `rt` and `neigh` again if above conditions hold. The function simply overwrite `neigh` if succeeds or returns if fails, without decreasing the reference count of previous `neigh`. This may result in memory leaks. Fix it by decrementing the reference count of `neigh` in place.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 6b2e04bc240fe9be9e690059f710e9f95346d34d - < ffb15594433391fd7885eb88ce5a7f7bdeefbb15affected 6b2e04bc240fe9be9e690059f710e9f95346d34d - < 7998043d31d000c3a93f46182e6569dd0eecda34affected 6b2e04bc240fe9be9e690059f710e9f95346d34d - < 7396ba87f1edf549284869451665c7c4e74ecd4f |
Linux | Linux | affected 5.12unaffected 0 - < 5.12unaffected 5.15.63 - <= 5.15.*unaffected 5.19.4 - <= 5.19.*unaffected 6.0 - <= * |
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