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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-50555" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-10-07T15:21:16.179Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:59:07.298Z" 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-2022-50555" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50555.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50555" title: "tipc: fix a null-ptr-deref in tipc_topsrv_accept" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntipc: fix a null-ptr-deref in tipc_topsrv_accept\n\nsyzbot found a crash in tipc_topsrv_accept:\n\n KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]\n Workqueue: tipc_rcv tipc_topsrv_accept\n RIP: 0010:kernel_accept+0x22d/0x350 net/socket.c:3487\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n tipc_topsrv_accept+0x197/0x280 net/tipc/topsrv.c:460\n process_one_work+0x991/0x1610 kernel/workqueue.c:2289\n worker_thread+0x665/0x1080 kernel/workqueue.c:2436\n kthread+0x2e4/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:376\n ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:306\n\nIt was caused by srv-\u003elistener that might be set to null by\ntipc_topsrv_stop() in net .exit whereas it's still used in\ntipc_topsrv_accept() worker.\n\nsrv-\u003elistener is protected by srv-\u003eidr_lock in tipc_topsrv_stop(), so add\na check for srv-\u003elistener under srv-\u003eidr_lock in tipc_topsrv_accept() to\navoid the null-ptr-deref. To ensure the lsock is not released during the\ntipc_topsrv_accept(), move sock_release() after tipc_topsrv_work_stop()\nwhere it's waiting until the tipc_topsrv_accept worker to be done.\n\nNote that sk_callback_lock is used to protect sk-\u003esk_user_data instead of\nsrv-\u003elistener, and it should check srv in tipc_topsrv_listener_data_ready()\ninstead. This also ensures that no more tipc_topsrv_accept worker will be\nstarted after tipc_conn_close() is called in tipc_topsrv_stop() where it\nsets sk-\u003esk_user_data to null." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0ef897be12b8b4cf297b6016e79ec97ec90f2cf6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ce69bdac2310152bb70845024d5d704c52aabfc3"},{"version":"0ef897be12b8b4cf297b6016e79ec97ec90f2cf6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"24b129aed8730e48f47d852d58d76825ab6f407c"},{"version":"0ef897be12b8b4cf297b6016e79ec97ec90f2cf6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"32a3d4660b34ce49ac0162338ebe362098e2f5df"},{"version":"0ef897be12b8b4cf297b6016e79ec97ec90f2cf6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7a939503fc32bff4ed60800b73ff7fbb4aea2142"},{"version":"0ef897be12b8b4cf297b6016e79ec97ec90f2cf6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cedb41664e27b2cae7e21487f1bee22dcd84037d"},{"version":"0ef897be12b8b4cf297b6016e79ec97ec90f2cf6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"82cb4e4612c633a9ce320e1773114875604a3cce"}],"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":"5.4.223","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.153","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.77","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.0.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1","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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