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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-50423" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-10-01T11:41:56.083Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:58:45.759Z" 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-2022-50423" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50423.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50423" title: "ACPICA: Fix use-after-free in acpi_ut_copy_ipackage_to_ipackage()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nACPICA: Fix use-after-free in acpi_ut_copy_ipackage_to_ipackage()\n\nThere is an use-after-free reported by KASAN:\n\n BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in acpi_ut_remove_reference+0x3b/0x82\n Read of size 1 at addr ffff888112afc460 by task modprobe/2111\n CPU: 0 PID: 2111 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 6.1.0-rc7-dirty\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996),\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n kasan_report+0xae/0xe0\n acpi_ut_remove_reference+0x3b/0x82\n acpi_ut_copy_iobject_to_iobject+0x3be/0x3d5\n acpi_ds_store_object_to_local+0x15d/0x3a0\n acpi_ex_store+0x78d/0x7fd\n acpi_ex_opcode_1A_1T_1R+0xbe4/0xf9b\n acpi_ps_parse_aml+0x217/0x8d5\n ...\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nThe root cause of the problem is that the acpi_operand_object\nis freed when acpi_ut_walk_package_tree() fails in\nacpi_ut_copy_ipackage_to_ipackage(), lead to repeated release in\nacpi_ut_copy_iobject_to_iobject(). The problem was introduced\nby \"8aa5e56eeb61\" commit, this commit is to fix memory leak in\nacpi_ut_copy_iobject_to_iobject(), repeatedly adding remove\noperation, lead to \"acpi_operand_object\" used after free.\n\nFix it by removing acpi_ut_remove_reference() in\nacpi_ut_copy_ipackage_to_ipackage(). acpi_ut_copy_ipackage_to_ipackage()\nis called to copy an internal package object into another internal\npackage object, when it fails, the memory of acpi_operand_object\nshould be freed by the caller." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8aa5e56eeb61a099ea6519eb30ee399e1bc043ce","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"133462d35dae95edb944af86b986d4c9dec59bd1"},{"version":"8aa5e56eeb61a099ea6519eb30ee399e1bc043ce","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"02f237423c9c6a18e062de2d474f85d5659e4eb9"},{"version":"8aa5e56eeb61a099ea6519eb30ee399e1bc043ce","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c9125b643fc51b8e662f2f614096ceb45a0adbc3"},{"version":"8aa5e56eeb61a099ea6519eb30ee399e1bc043ce","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dfdde4d5138bc023897033a5ac653a84e94805be"},{"version":"8aa5e56eeb61a099ea6519eb30ee399e1bc043ce","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"02617006b5a46f2ea55ac61f5693c7afd7bf9276"},{"version":"8aa5e56eeb61a099ea6519eb30ee399e1bc043ce","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6fde666278f91b85d71545a0ebbf41d8d7af8074"},{"version":"8aa5e56eeb61a099ea6519eb30ee399e1bc043ce","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f51b2235e4f320edc839c3e5cb0d1f8a6e8657c6"},{"version":"8aa5e56eeb61a099ea6519eb30ee399e1bc043ce","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"01f2c2052ea50fb9a8ce12e4e83aed0267934ef0"},{"version":"8aa5e56eeb61a099ea6519eb30ee399e1bc043ce","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"470188b09e92d83c5a997f25f0e8fb8cd2bc3469"},{"version":"b3e98f0c4f996cd53b80bad71f0d7e4a2cf3a4e8","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"7af5504c102a378376101dbd160246b10a814dd0","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"e29a15484d7ea949e49ae7fb7e576a575da824a6","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"e2ab6731a36966d042a2d4dabd980496cd680f75","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"3.10.55","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.11"},{"version":"3.12.29","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.13"},{"version":"3.14.19","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.15"},{"version":"3.16.3","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.17"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.17"},{"version":"4.9.337","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.9.*"},{"version":"4.14.303","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.270","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.229","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.163","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.86","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.0.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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