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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-50531" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-10-07T15:19:21.911Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:21:13.642Z" 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-2022-50531" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50531.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50531" title: "tipc: fix an information leak in tipc_topsrv_kern_subscr" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntipc: fix an information leak in tipc_topsrv_kern_subscr\n\nUse a 8-byte write to initialize sub.usr_handle in\ntipc_topsrv_kern_subscr(), otherwise four bytes remain uninitialized\nwhen issuing setsockopt(..., SOL_TIPC, ...).\nThis resulted in an infoleak reported by KMSAN when the packet was\nreceived:\n\n =====================================================\n BUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak in copyout+0xbc/0x100 lib/iov_iter.c:169\n instrument_copy_to_user ./include/linux/instrumented.h:121\n copyout+0xbc/0x100 lib/iov_iter.c:169\n _copy_to_iter+0x5c0/0x20a0 lib/iov_iter.c:527\n copy_to_iter ./include/linux/uio.h:176\n simple_copy_to_iter+0x64/0xa0 net/core/datagram.c:513\n __skb_datagram_iter+0x123/0xdc0 net/core/datagram.c:419\n skb_copy_datagram_iter+0x58/0x200 net/core/datagram.c:527\n skb_copy_datagram_msg ./include/linux/skbuff.h:3903\n packet_recvmsg+0x521/0x1e70 net/packet/af_packet.c:3469\n ____sys_recvmsg+0x2c4/0x810 net/socket.c:?\n ___sys_recvmsg+0x217/0x840 net/socket.c:2743\n __sys_recvmsg net/socket.c:2773\n __do_sys_recvmsg net/socket.c:2783\n __se_sys_recvmsg net/socket.c:2780\n __x64_sys_recvmsg+0x364/0x540 net/socket.c:2780\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50\n do_syscall_64+0x3d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:120\n\n ...\n\n Uninit was stored to memory at:\n tipc_sub_subscribe+0x42d/0xb50 net/tipc/subscr.c:156\n tipc_conn_rcv_sub+0x246/0x620 net/tipc/topsrv.c:375\n tipc_topsrv_kern_subscr+0x2e8/0x400 net/tipc/topsrv.c:579\n tipc_group_create+0x4e7/0x7d0 net/tipc/group.c:190\n tipc_sk_join+0x2a8/0x770 net/tipc/socket.c:3084\n tipc_setsockopt+0xae5/0xe40 net/tipc/socket.c:3201\n __sys_setsockopt+0x87f/0xdc0 net/socket.c:2252\n __do_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2263\n __se_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2260\n __x64_sys_setsockopt+0xe0/0x160 net/socket.c:2260\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50\n do_syscall_64+0x3d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:120\n\n Local variable sub created at:\n tipc_topsrv_kern_subscr+0x57/0x400 net/tipc/topsrv.c:562\n tipc_group_create+0x4e7/0x7d0 net/tipc/group.c:190\n\n Bytes 84-87 of 88 are uninitialized\n Memory access of size 88 starts at ffff88801ed57cd0\n Data copied to user address 0000000020000400\n ...\n =====================================================" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"026321c6d056a54b4145522492245d2b5913ee1d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3d1b83ff7b6575a4e41283203e6b2e25ea700cd7"},{"version":"026321c6d056a54b4145522492245d2b5913ee1d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"567f8de358b61015dcfb8878a1f06c5369a45f54"},{"version":"026321c6d056a54b4145522492245d2b5913ee1d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e558e148938442dd49628cd7ef61c360832bef31"},{"version":"026321c6d056a54b4145522492245d2b5913ee1d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dbc01c0a4e202a7e925dad1d4b7c1d6eb0c81154"},{"version":"026321c6d056a54b4145522492245d2b5913ee1d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fef70f978bc289642501d88d2a3f5e841bd31a67"},{"version":"026321c6d056a54b4145522492245d2b5913ee1d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"777ecaabd614d47c482a5c9031579e66da13989a"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.17"},{"version":"4.19.264","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.221","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.152","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.76","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.0.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## 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