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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-50563" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-10-22T13:23:22.080Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:21:50.626Z" 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-2022-50563" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50563.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50563" title: "dm thin: Fix UAF in run_timer_softirq()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndm thin: Fix UAF in run_timer_softirq()\n\nWhen dm_resume() and dm_destroy() are concurrent, it will\nlead to UAF, as follows:\n\n BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __run_timers+0x173/0x710\n Write of size 8 at addr ffff88816d9490f0 by task swapper/0/0\n\u003csnip\u003e\n Call Trace:\n \u003cIRQ\u003e\n dump_stack_lvl+0x73/0x9f\n print_report.cold+0x132/0xaa2\n _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0xcd/0x160\n __run_timers+0x173/0x710\n kasan_report+0xad/0x110\n __run_timers+0x173/0x710\n __asan_store8+0x9c/0x140\n __run_timers+0x173/0x710\n call_timer_fn+0x310/0x310\n pvclock_clocksource_read+0xfa/0x250\n kvm_clock_read+0x2c/0x70\n kvm_clock_get_cycles+0xd/0x20\n ktime_get+0x5c/0x110\n lapic_next_event+0x38/0x50\n clockevents_program_event+0xf1/0x1e0\n run_timer_softirq+0x49/0x90\n __do_softirq+0x16e/0x62c\n __irq_exit_rcu+0x1fa/0x270\n irq_exit_rcu+0x12/0x20\n sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x8e/0xc0\n\nOne of the concurrency UAF can be shown as below:\n\n use free\ndo_resume |\n __find_device_hash_cell |\n dm_get |\n atomic_inc(&md-\u003eholders) |\n | dm_destroy\n | __dm_destroy\n | if (!dm_suspended_md(md))\n | atomic_read(&md-\u003eholders)\n | msleep(1)\n dm_resume |\n __dm_resume |\n dm_table_resume_targets |\n pool_resume |\n do_waker #add delay work |\n dm_put |\n atomic_dec(&md-\u003eholders) |\n | dm_table_destroy\n | pool_dtr\n | __pool_dec\n | __pool_destroy\n | destroy_workqueue\n | kfree(pool) # free pool\n time out\n__do_softirq\n run_timer_softirq # pool has already been freed\n\nThis can be easily reproduced using:\n 1. create thin-pool\n 2. dmsetup suspend pool\n 3. dmsetup resume pool\n 4. dmsetup remove_all # Concurrent with 3\n\nThe root cause of this UAF bug is that dm_resume() adds timer after\ndm_destroy() skips cancelling the timer because of suspend status.\nAfter timeout, it will call run_timer_softirq(), however pool has\nalready been freed. The concurrency UAF bug will happen.\n\nTherefore, cancelling timer again in __pool_destroy()." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"991d9fa02da0dd1f843dc011376965e0c8c6c9b5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7ee059d06a5d3c15465959e0472993e80fbe4e81"},{"version":"991d9fa02da0dd1f843dc011376965e0c8c6c9b5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"550a4fac7ecfee5bac6a0dd772456ca62fb72f46"},{"version":"991d9fa02da0dd1f843dc011376965e0c8c6c9b5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e8b8e0d2bbf7d1172c4f435621418e29ee408d46"},{"version":"991d9fa02da0dd1f843dc011376965e0c8c6c9b5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7ae6aa649394e1e7f6dafb55ce0d578c0572a280"},{"version":"991d9fa02da0dd1f843dc011376965e0c8c6c9b5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"34fe9c2251f19786a6689149a6212c6c0de1d63b"},{"version":"991d9fa02da0dd1f843dc011376965e0c8c6c9b5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"34cd15d83b7206188d440b29b68084fcafde9395"},{"version":"991d9fa02da0dd1f843dc011376965e0c8c6c9b5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"94e231c9d6f2648d2f1f68e7f476e050ee0a6159"},{"version":"991d9fa02da0dd1f843dc011376965e0c8c6c9b5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d9971fa4d8bde63d49c743c1b32d12fbbd3a30bd"},{"version":"991d9fa02da0dd1f843dc011376965e0c8c6c9b5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"88430ebcbc0ec637b710b947738839848c20feff"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.2"},{"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":"5.15.87","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.0.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1.4","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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