linux — security advisory

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  "id": "14b9cc4fefcfa17469daf77b0aacc77c06fd1c485280156eb382496651cd7d0d",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50873",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50873",
    "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vdpa/vp_vdpa: fix kfree a wrong pointer in vp_vdpa_remove In vp_vdpa_remove(), the code kfree(&vp_vdpa_mgtdev->mgtdev.id_table) uses a reference of pointer as the argument of kfree, which is the wrong pointer and then may hit crash like this: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00ffff003363e30c Internal error: Oops: 96000004 [#1] SMP Call trace: rb_next+0x20/0x5c ext4_readdir+0x494/0x5c4 [ext4] iterate_dir+0x168/0x1b4 __se_sys_getdents64+0x68/0x170 __arm64_sys_getdents64+0x24/0x30 el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x7c/0x1bc do_el0_svc+0x2c/0x94 el0_svc+0x20/0x30 el0_sync_handler+0xb0/0xb4 el0_sync+0x160/0x180 Code: 54000220 f9400441 b4000161 aa0103e0 (f9400821) SMP: stopping secondary CPUs Starting crashdump kernel...",
    "evidence": "osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50873",
    "products": [
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          "value": "linux",
          "evidence": "/affected/0/package/name"
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        "fixed_versions": [
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            "value": "6.1.7-1",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/ranges"
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      {
        "name": {
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          "evidence": "/affected/1/package/name"
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      },
      {
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    "severity": "unknown",
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          ],
          "package": {
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            "purl": "pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=bookworm",
            "ecosystem": "Debian:12"
          },
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          },
          "ecosystem_specific": {
            "urgency": "not yet assigned"
          }
        },
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              "events": [
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          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "linux",
            "purl": "pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=trixie",
            "ecosystem": "Debian:13"
          },
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          },
          "ecosystem_specific": {
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          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "linux",
            "purl": "pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=forky",
            "ecosystem": "Debian:14"
          },
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            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50873.json"
          },
          "ecosystem_specific": {
            "urgency": "not yet assigned"
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-15T07:47:25.284809721Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "upstream": [
        "CVE-2022-50873"
      ],
      "references": [
        "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-50873"
      ]
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2022-50873",
        "evidence": "/upstream"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": null
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 322114,
  "published_at": "2025-12-30T13:16:02.263+00:00"
}