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CVE-2022-49814

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Published: May 1, 2025Modified: Jun 17, 2026

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4.7
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Exploitability: 1.0 / Impact: 3.6
Source: NVD

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kcm: close race conditions on sk_receive_queue sk->sk_receive_queue is protected by skb queue lock, but for KCM sockets its RX path takes mux->rx_lock to protect more than just skb queue. However, kcm_recvmsg() still only grabs the skb queue lock, so race conditions still exist. We can teach kcm_recvmsg() to grab mux->rx_lock too but this would introduce a potential performance regression as struct kcm_mux can be shared by multiple KCM sockets. So we have to enforce skb queue lock in requeue_rx_msgs() and handle skb peek case carefully in kcm_wait_data(). Fortunately, skb_recv_datagram() already handles it nicely and is widely used by other sockets, we can just switch to skb_recv_datagram() after getting rid of the unnecessary sock lock in kcm_recvmsg() and kcm_splice_read(). Side note: SOCK_DONE is not used by KCM sockets, so it is safe to get rid of this check too. I ran the original syzbot reproducer for 30 min without seeing any issue.

Affected (11)

Products: Linux: Linux Kernel
1 product
Linux Kernel
Configuration A
11 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Linux
From 4.15 to 4.19.267
From 4.20 to 5.4.225
From 4.6 to 4.14.300
From 5.11 to 5.15.80
From 5.16 to 6.0.10
From 5.5 to 5.10.156
Version 6.1 rc1
Version 6.1 rc2
Version 6.1 rc3
Version 6.1 rc4
Version 6.1 rc5

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Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
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