What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-50423: ACPICA: Fix use-after-free in acpi_ut_copy_ipackage_to_ipackage()

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-10-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ACPICA: Fix use-after-free in acpi_ut_copy_ipackage_to_ipackage() There is an use-after-free reported by KASAN: BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in acpi_ut_remove_reference+0x3b/0x82 Read of size 1 at addr ffff888112afc460 by task modprobe/2111 CPU: 0 PID: 2111 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 6.1.0-rc7-dirty Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), Call Trace: <TASK> kasan_report+0xae/0xe0 acpi_ut_remove_reference+0x3b/0x82 acpi_ut_copy_iobject_to_iobject+0x3be/0x3d5 acpi_ds_store_object_to_local+0x15d/0x3a0 acpi_ex_store+0x78d/0x7fd acpi_ex_opcode_1A_1T_1R+0xbe4/0xf9b acpi_ps_parse_aml+0x217/0x8d5 ... </TASK> The root cause of the problem is that the acpi_operand_object is freed when acpi_ut_walk_package_tree() fails in acpi_ut_copy_ipackage_to_ipackage(), lead to repeated release in acpi_ut_copy_iobject_to_iobject(). The problem was introduced by "8aa5e56eeb61" commit, this commit is to fix memory leak in acpi_ut_copy_iobject_to_iobject(), repeatedly adding remove operation, lead to "acpi_operand_object" used after free. Fix it by removing acpi_ut_remove_reference() in acpi_ut_copy_ipackage_to_ipackage(). acpi_ut_copy_ipackage_to_ipackage() is called to copy an internal package object into another internal package object, when it fails, the memory of acpi_operand_object should be freed by the caller.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: from 3.10.55 before 3.11; from 3.12.29 before 3.13; from 3.14.19 before 3.15; from 3.16.3 before 4.9.337; from 4.10 before 4.14.303; from 4.15 before 4.19.270 — fixed in 3.11, 3.13, 3.15, 4.14.303, 4.19.270, 4.9.337

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 3.11, 3.13, 3.15, 4.14.303. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01f2c2052ea50fb9a8ce12e4e83aed0267934ef0
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/02617006b5a46f2ea55ac61f5693c7afd7bf9276
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/02f237423c9c6a18e062de2d474f85d5659e4eb9
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/133462d35dae95edb944af86b986d4c9dec59bd1
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/470188b09e92d83c5a997f25f0e8fb8cd2bc3469
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fde666278f91b85d71545a0ebbf41d8d7af8074
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9125b643fc51b8e662f2f614096ceb45a0adbc3
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dfdde4d5138bc023897033a5ac653a84e94805be
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f51b2235e4f320edc839c3e5cb0d1f8a6e8657c6

Get alerted when CVE-2022-50423 or the next vulnerability affects your stack