linux — security advisory

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  "id": "17a195474f49c3eba0e746f46e7041d03bd9f85ca14a9046a4b4d97603078c2c",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50396",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50396",
    "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: sched: fix memory leak in tcindex_set_parms Syzkaller reports a memory leak as follows: ==================================== BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff88810c287f00 (size 256): comm \"syz-executor105\", pid 3600, jiffies 4294943292 (age 12.990s) 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: [] kmalloc_trace+0x20/0x90 mm/slab_common.c:1046 [] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:576 [inline] [] kmalloc_array include/linux/slab.h:627 [inline] [] kcalloc include/linux/slab.h:659 [inline] [] tcf_exts_init include/net/pkt_cls.h:250 [inline] [] tcindex_set_parms+0xa7/0xbe0 net/sched/cls_tcindex.c:342 [] tcindex_change+0xdf/0x120 net/sched/cls_tcindex.c:553 [] tc_new_tfilter+0x4f2/0x1100 net/sched/cls_api.c:2147 [] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x4dc/0x5d0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6082 [] netlink_rcv_skb+0x87/0x1d0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2540 [] netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 [inline] [] netlink_unicast+0x397/0x4c0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1345 [] netlink_sendmsg+0x396/0x710 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1921 [] sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline] [] sock_sendmsg+0x56/0x80 net/socket.c:734 [] ____sys_sendmsg+0x178/0x410 net/socket.c:2482 [] ___sys_sendmsg+0xa8/0x110 net/socket.c:2536 [] __sys_sendmmsg+0x105/0x330 net/socket.c:2622 [] __do_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2651 [inl",
    "evidence": "osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50396",
    "products": [
      {
        "name": {
          "value": "linux",
          "evidence": "/affected/0/package/name"
        },
        "prerequisites": [],
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          {
            "value": "6.1.7-1",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/ranges"
          }
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        "affected_versions": []
      },
      {
        "name": {
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        },
        "prerequisites": [],
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        "name": {
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            "value": "6.1.7-1",
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    ],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
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      "aliases": [
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      "metrics": [
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
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                {
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          ],
          "package": {
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            "purl": "pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=bookworm",
            "ecosystem": "Debian:12"
          },
          "database_specific": {
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          },
          "ecosystem_specific": {
            "urgency": "not yet assigned"
          }
        },
        {
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              "events": [
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                {
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          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "linux",
            "purl": "pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=trixie",
            "ecosystem": "Debian:13"
          },
          "database_specific": {
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          },
          "ecosystem_specific": {
            "urgency": "not yet assigned"
          }
        },
        {
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                {
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              ]
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          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "linux",
            "purl": "pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=forky",
            "ecosystem": "Debian:14"
          },
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          },
          "ecosystem_specific": {
            "urgency": "not yet assigned"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-15T08:03:00.737596611Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "upstream": [
        "CVE-2022-50396"
      ],
      "references": [
        "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-50396"
      ]
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2022-50396",
        "evidence": "/upstream"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 324928,
  "published_at": "2025-09-18T14:15:38.737+00:00"
}