CVE-2022-50854
PUBLISHED
Reported by Linux · Published December 30, 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nfc: virtual_ncidev: Fix memory leak in virtual_nci_send()
skb should be free in virtual_nci_send(), otherwise kmemleak will report
memleak.
Steps for reproduction (simulated in qemu):
cd tools/testing/selftests/nci
make
./nci_dev
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff888107588000 (size 208):
comm "nci_dev", pid 206, jiffies 4294945376 (age 368.248s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<000000008d94c8fd>] __alloc_skb+0x1da/0x290
[<00000000278bc7f8>] nci_send_cmd+0xa3/0x350
[<0000000081256a22>] nci_reset_req+0x6b/0xa0
[<000000009e721112>] __nci_request+0x90/0x250
[<000000005d556e59>] nci_dev_up+0x217/0x5b0
[<00000000e618ce62>] nfc_dev_up+0x114/0x220
[<00000000981e226b>] nfc_genl_dev_up+0x94/0xe0
[<000000009bb03517>] genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.14+0x228/0x2d0
[<00000000b7f8c101>] genl_rcv_msg+0x35c/0x640
[<00000000c94075ff>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x11e/0x350
[<00000000440cfb1e>] genl_rcv+0x24/0x40
[<0000000062593b40>] netlink_unicast+0x43f/0x640
[<000000001d0b13cc>] netlink_sendmsg+0x73a/0xbf0
[<000000003272487f>] __sys_sendto+0x324/0x370
[<00000000ef9f1747>] __x64_sys_sendto+0xdd/0x1b0
[<000000001e437841>] do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90
EPSS 0.03% · 6.7th percentile
