# CVE-2022-50219: bpf: Fix KASAN use-after-free Read in compute\_effective\_progs

- Severity: CVSS 7.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-06-18 · Updated: 2026-08-05

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 5.7

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix KASAN use-after-free Read in compute_effective_progs Syzbot found a Use After Free bug in compute_effective_progs(). The reproducer creates a number of BPF links, and causes a fault injected alloc to fail, while calling bpf_link_detach on them. Link detach triggers the link to be freed by bpf_link_free(), which calls __cgroup_bpf_detach() and update_effective_progs(). If the memory allocation in this function fails, the function restores the pointer to the bpf_cgroup_link on the cgroup list, but the memory gets freed just after it returns. After this, every subsequent call to update_effective_progs() causes this already deallocated pointer to be dereferenced in prog_list_length(), and triggers KASAN UAF error. To fix this issue don't preserve the pointer to the prog or link in the list, but remove it and replace it with a dummy prog without shrinking the table. The subsequent call to __cgroup_bpf_detach() or __cgroup_bpf_detach() will correct it.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3527e3cbb84d8868c4d4e91ba55915f96d39ec3d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f8ca9c40e6222ce431e9ba5dae3cccce8ef9443
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6336388715afa419cc97d0255bda3bba1b96b7ca
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/be001f9da71eaa3b61e186fb88bde3279728bdca
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c46091ee985ae84c60c5e95055d779fcd291d87

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