CVE-2022-50661
Dec. 9, 2025, 6:37 p.m.
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Description
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---
Product(s) Impacted
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
| linux_kernel |
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Published: Dec. 9, 2025, 4:17 p.m.
Last Modified: Dec. 9, 2025, 6:37 p.m.
Last Modified: Dec. 9, 2025, 6:37 p.m.
Status : Awaiting Analysis
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