CVE-2022-50817
Unknown Unknown - Not Provided
Null Pointer Dereference in Linux Kernel HSR skb_clone() Function

Publication date: 2025-12-30

Last updated on: 2025-12-30

Assigner: kernel.org

Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: hsr: avoid possible NULL deref in skb_clone() syzbot got a crash [1] in skb_clone(), caused by a bug in hsr_get_untagged_frame(). When/if create_stripped_skb_hsr() returns NULL, we must not attempt to call skb_clone(). While we are at it, replace a WARN_ONCE() by netdev_warn_once(). [1] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc000000000f: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000078-0x000000000000007f] CPU: 1 PID: 754 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 6.0.0-syzkaller-02734-g0326074ff465 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/22/2022 RIP: 0010:skb_clone+0x108/0x3c0 net/core/skbuff.c:1641 Code: 93 02 00 00 49 83 7c 24 28 00 0f 85 e9 00 00 00 e8 5d 4a 29 fa 4c 8d 75 7e 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 4c 89 f2 48 c1 ea 03 <0f> b6 04 02 4c 89 f2 83 e2 07 38 d0 7f 08 84 c0 0f 85 9e 01 00 00 RSP: 0018:ffffc90003ccf4e0 EFLAGS: 00010207 RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffffc90003ccf5f8 RCX: ffffc9000c24b000 RDX: 000000000000000f RSI: ffffffff8751cb13 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 00000000000000f0 R09: 0000000000000140 R10: fffffbfff181d972 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff888161fc3640 R13: 0000000000000a20 R14: 000000000000007e R15: ffffffff8dc5f620 FS: 00007feb621e4700(0000) GS:ffff8880b9b00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007feb621e3ff8 CR3: 00000001643a9000 CR4: 00000000003506e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> hsr_get_untagged_frame+0x4e/0x610 net/hsr/hsr_forward.c:164 hsr_forward_do net/hsr/hsr_forward.c:461 [inline] hsr_forward_skb+0xcca/0x1d50 net/hsr/hsr_forward.c:623 hsr_handle_frame+0x588/0x7c0 net/hsr/hsr_slave.c:69 __netif_receive_skb_core+0x9fe/0x38f0 net/core/dev.c:5379 __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0xae/0x180 net/core/dev.c:5483 __netif_receive_skb+0x1f/0x1c0 net/core/dev.c:5599 netif_receive_skb_internal net/core/dev.c:5685 [inline] netif_receive_skb+0x12f/0x8d0 net/core/dev.c:5744 tun_rx_batched+0x4ab/0x7a0 drivers/net/tun.c:1544 tun_get_user+0x2686/0x3a00 drivers/net/tun.c:1995 tun_chr_write_iter+0xdb/0x200 drivers/net/tun.c:2025 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2187 [inline] new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:491 [inline] vfs_write+0x9e9/0xdd0 fs/read_write.c:584 ksys_write+0x127/0x250 fs/read_write.c:637 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
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Published
2025-12-30
Last Modified
2025-12-30
Generated
2026-05-07
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2025-12-30
EPSS Evaluated
2026-05-05
NVD
CVE-2022-50817
EUVD
EUVD-2022-55881
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linux linux_kernel *
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CWE-UNKNOWN
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Can you explain this vulnerability to me?

This vulnerability is a potential NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's hsr (High-availability Seamless Redundancy) network code. Specifically, if the function create_stripped_skb_hsr() returns NULL, the code incorrectly attempts to call skb_clone(), which can lead to a crash due to dereferencing a NULL pointer.


How can this vulnerability impact me? :

This vulnerability can cause a kernel crash (general protection fault) when the NULL pointer dereference occurs. This can lead to system instability or denial of service, affecting the availability of the system running the vulnerable Linux kernel.


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