CVE-2022-50243CWE-416

CVE-2022-50243

High · published September 15, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
5.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

sctp: handle the error returned from sctp_auth_asoc_init_active_key

When it returns an error from sctp_auth_asoc_init_active_key(), the

active_key is actually not updated. The old sh_key will be freeed

while it's still used as active key in asoc. Then an use-after-free

will be triggered when sending patckets, as found by syzbot:

sctp_auth_shkey_hold+0x22/0xa0 net/sctp/auth.c:112

sctp_set_owner_w net/sctp/socket.c:132 [inline]

sctp_sendmsg_to_asoc+0xbd5/0x1a20 net/sctp/socket.c:1863

sctp_sendmsg+0x1053/0x1d50 net/sctp/socket.c:2025

inet_sendmsg+0x99/0xe0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:819

sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]

sock_sendmsg+0xcf/0x120 net/socket.c:734

This patch is to fix it by not replacing the sh_key when it returns

errors from sctp_auth_asoc_init_active_key() in sctp_auth_set_key().

For sctp_auth_set_active_key(), old active_key_id will be set back

to asoc->active_key_id when the same thing happens.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00164 · 5.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-416 · Use After Free
Published
2025-09-15T18:15Z
Affected products (13)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 4.19.199, < 4.19.2624.19.262
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.4.136, < 5.4.2205.4.220
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.10.54, < 5.10.1505.10.150
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.13.6, < 5.145.14
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.14.1, < 5.15.755.15.75
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.16, < 5.19.175.19.17
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.0, < 6.0.36.0.3
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References (7)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 SEP 14:01Z
    sctp: handle the error returned from sctp_auth_asoc_init_active_key
    cvelistv5