CVE-2022-50661

seccomp: Move copy_seccomp() to no failure path.

published December 9, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
14.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

seccomp: Move copy_seccomp() to no failure path.

Our syzbot instance reported memory leaks in do_seccomp() [0], similar

to the report [1]. It shows that we miss freeing struct seccomp_filter

and some objects included in it.

We can reproduce the issue with the program below [2] which calls one

seccomp() and two clone() syscalls.

The first clone()d child exits earlier than its parent and sends a

signal to kill it during the second clone(), more precisely before the

fatal_signal_pending() test in copy_process(). When the parent receives

the signal, it has to destroy the embryonic process and return -EINTR to

user space. In the failure path, we have to call seccomp_filter_release()

to decrement the filter's refcount.

Initially, we called it in free_task() called from the failure path, but

the commit 3a15fb6ed92c ("seccomp: release filter after task is fully

dead") moved it to release_task() to notify user space as early as possible

that the filter is no longer used.

To keep the change and current seccomp refcount semantics, let's move

copy_seccomp() just after the signal check and add a WARN_ON_ONCE() in

free_task() for future debugging.

[0]:

unreferenced object 0xffff8880063add00 (size 256):

comm "repro_seccomp", pid 230, jiffies 4294687090 (age 9.914s)

hex dump (first 32 bytes):

01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................

backtrace:

do_seccomp (./include/linux/slab.h:600 ./include/linux/slab.h:733 kernel/seccomp.c:666 kernel/seccomp.c:708 kernel/seccomp.c:1871 kernel/seccomp.c:1991)

do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80)

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:120)

unreferenced object 0xffffc90000035000 (size 4096):

comm "repro_seccomp", pid 230, jiffies 4294687090 (age 9.915s)

hex dump (first 32 bytes):

01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 05 00 00 00 ................

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

backtrace:

__vmalloc_node_range (mm/vmalloc.c:3226)

__vmalloc_node (mm/vmalloc.c:3261 (discriminator 4))

bpf_prog_alloc_no_stats (kernel/bpf/core.c:91)

bpf_prog_alloc (kernel/bpf/core.c:129)

bpf_prog_create_from_user (net/core/filter.c:1414)

do_seccomp (kernel/seccomp.c:671 kernel/seccomp.c:708 kernel/seccomp.c:1871 kernel/seccomp.c:1991)

do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80)

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:120)

unreferenced object 0xffff888003fa1000 (size 1024):

comm "repro_seccomp", pid 230, jiffies 4294687090 (age 9.915s)

hex dump (first 32 bytes):

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

backtrace:

bpf_prog_alloc_no_stats (./include/linux/slab.h:600 ./include/linux/slab.h:733 kernel/bpf/core.c:95)

bpf_prog_alloc (kernel/bpf/core.c:129)

bpf_prog_create_from_user (net/core/filter.c:1414)

do_seccomp (kernel/seccomp.c:671 kernel/seccomp.c:708 kernel/seccomp.c:1871 kernel/seccomp.c:1991)

do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80)

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:120)

unreferenced object 0xffff888006360240 (size 16):

comm "repro_seccomp", pid 230, jiffies 4294687090 (age 9.915s)

hex dump (first 16 bytes):

01 00 37 00 76 65 72 6c e0 83 01 06 80 88 ff ff ..7.verl........

backtrace:

bpf_prog_store_orig_filter (net/core/filter.c:1137)

bpf_prog_create_from_user (net/core/filter.c:1428)

do_seccomp (kernel/seccomp.c:671 kernel/seccomp.c:708 kernel/seccomp.c:1871 kernel/seccomp.c:1991)

do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80)

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:120)

unreferenced object 0xffff888

---truncated---

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00244 · 14.7th percentile
Published
2025-12-09T01:29Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 09 DEC 01:29Z
    seccomp: Move copy_seccomp() to no failure path.
    cvelistv5