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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-50004"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-06-18T11:01:09.684Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:23:33.412Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:49.724Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50004"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50004.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50004"
title: "xfrm: policy: fix metadata dst-\u003edev xmit null pointer dereference"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxfrm: policy: fix metadata dst-\u003edev xmit null pointer dereference\n\nWhen we try to transmit an skb with metadata_dst attached (i.e. dst-\u003edev\n== NULL) through xfrm interface we can hit a null pointer dereference[1]\nin xfrmi_xmit2() -\u003e xfrm_lookup_with_ifid() due to the check for a\nloopback skb device when there's no policy which dereferences dst-\u003edev\nunconditionally. Not having dst-\u003edev can be interepreted as it not being\na loopback device, so just add a check for a null dst_orig-\u003edev.\n\nWith this fix xfrm interface's Tx error counters go up as usual.\n\n[1] net-next calltrace captured via netconsole:\n  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000000c0\n  #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode\n  #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page\n  PGD 0 P4D 0\n  Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP\n  CPU: 1 PID: 7231 Comm: ping Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.19.0+ #24\n  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.0-1.fc36 04/01/2014\n  RIP: 0010:xfrm_lookup_with_ifid+0x5eb/0xa60\n  Code: 8d 74 24 38 e8 26 a4 37 00 48 89 c1 e9 12 fc ff ff 49 63 ed 41 83 fd be 0f 85 be 01 00 00 41 be ff ff ff ff 45 31 ed 48 8b 03 \u003cf6\u003e 80 c0 00 00 00 08 75 0f 41 80 bc 24 19 0d 00 00 01 0f 84 1e 02\n  RSP: 0018:ffffb0db82c679f0 EFLAGS: 00010246\n  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffd0db7fcad430 RCX: ffffb0db82c67a10\n  RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffb0db82c67a80\n  RBP: ffffb0db82c67a80 R08: ffffb0db82c67a14 R09: 0000000000000000\n  R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffff8fa449667dc8 R12: ffffffff966db880\n  R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00000000ffffffff R15: 0000000000000000\n  FS:  00007ff35c83f000(0000) GS:ffff8fa478480000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n  CR2: 00000000000000c0 CR3: 000000001ebb7000 CR4: 0000000000350ee0\n  Call Trace:\n   \u003cTASK\u003e\n   xfrmi_xmit+0xde/0x460\n   ? tcf_bpf_act+0x13d/0x2a0\n   dev_hard_start_xmit+0x72/0x1e0\n   __dev_queue_xmit+0x251/0xd30\n   ip_finish_output2+0x140/0x550\n   ip_push_pending_frames+0x56/0x80\n   raw_sendmsg+0x663/0x10a0\n   ? try_charge_memcg+0x3fd/0x7a0\n   ? __mod_memcg_lruvec_state+0x93/0x110\n   ? sock_sendmsg+0x30/0x40\n   sock_sendmsg+0x30/0x40\n   __sys_sendto+0xeb/0x130\n   ? handle_mm_fault+0xae/0x280\n   ? do_user_addr_fault+0x1e7/0x680\n   ? kvm_read_and_reset_apf_flags+0x3b/0x50\n   __x64_sys_sendto+0x20/0x30\n   do_syscall_64+0x34/0x80\n   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0\n  RIP: 0033:0x7ff35cac1366\n  Code: eb 0b 00 f7 d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb b8 0f 1f 00 41 89 ca 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 11 b8 2c 00 00 00 0f 05 \u003c48\u003e 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 72 c3 90 55 48 83 ec 30 44 89 4c 24 2c 4c 89\n  RSP: 002b:00007fff738e4028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c\n  RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fff738e57b0 RCX: 00007ff35cac1366\n  RDX: 0000000000000040 RSI: 0000557164e4b450 RDI: 0000000000000003\n  RBP: 0000557164e4b450 R08: 00007fff738e7a2c R09: 0000000000000010\n  R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000040\n  R13: 00007fff738e5770 R14: 00007fff738e4030 R15: 0000001d00000001\n   \u003c/TASK\u003e\n  Modules linked in: netconsole veth br_netfilter bridge bonding virtio_net [last unloaded: netconsole]\n  CR2: 00000000000000c0"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"5b7f84b1f9f46327360a64c529433fa0d68cc3f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2761612bcde9776dd93ce60ce55ef0b7c7329153"},{"version":"2d151d39073aff498358543801fca0f670fea981","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"96f2758a6d028d1ac08616de9c3c7ff2a122ecf1"},{"version":"2d151d39073aff498358543801fca0f670fea981","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e26d676c1f9f335510780b566a10475c47ce03d0"},{"version":"2d151d39073aff498358543801fca0f670fea981","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"17ecd4a4db4783392edd4944f5e8268205083f70"},{"version":"5.10.118","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10.140"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15"},{"version":"5.10.140","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.64","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.19.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.19.*"},{"version":"6.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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