{"id":"CVE-2022-50363","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2022-50363","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T20:54:27.701Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: skmsg: pass gfp argument to alloc_sk_msg() syzbot found that alloc_sk_msg() could be called from a non sleepable context. sk_psock_verdict_recv() uses rcu_read_lock() protection.","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nskmsg: pass gfp argument to alloc_sk_msg()\n\nsyzbot found that alloc_sk_msg() could be called from a\nnon sleepable context. sk_psock_verdict_recv() uses\nrcu_read_lock() protection.\n\nWe need the callers to pass a gfp_t argument to avoid issues.\n\nsyzbot report was:\n\nBUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/linux/sched/mm.h:274\nin_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 3613, name: syz-executor414\npreempt_count: 0, expected: 0\nRCU nest depth: 1, expected: 0\nINFO: lockdep is turned off.\nCPU: 0 PID: 3613 Comm: syz-executor414 Not tainted 6.0.0-syzkaller-09589-g55be6084c8e0 #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/22/2022\nCall Trace:\n<TASK>\n__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]\ndump_stack_lvl+0x1e3/0x2cb lib/dump_stack.c:106\n__might_resched+0x538/0x6a0 kernel/sched/core.c:9877\nmight_alloc include/linux/sched/mm.h:274 [inline]\nslab_pre_alloc_hook mm/slab.h:700 [inline]\nslab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3162 [inline]\nslab_alloc mm/slub.c:3256 [inline]\nkmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x59/0x310 mm/slub.c:3287\nkmalloc include/linux/slab.h:600 [inline]\nkzalloc include/linux/slab.h:733 [inline]\nalloc_sk_msg net/core/skmsg.c:507 [inline]\nsk_psock_skb_ingress_self+0x5c/0x330 net/core/skmsg.c:600\nsk_psock_verdict_apply+0x395/0x440 net/core/skmsg.c:1014\nsk_psock_verdict_recv+0x34d/0x560 net/core/skmsg.c:1201\ntcp_read_skb+0x4a1/0x790 net/ipv4/tcp.c:1770\ntcp_rcv_established+0x129d/0x1a10 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:5971\ntcp_v4_do_rcv+0x479/0xac0 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:1681\nsk_backlog_rcv include/net/sock.h:1109 [inline]\n__release_sock+0x1d8/0x4c0 net/core/sock.c:2906\nrelease_sock+0x5d/0x1c0 net/core/sock.c:3462\ntcp_sendmsg+0x36/0x40 net/ipv4/tcp.c:1483\nsock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]\nsock_sendmsg net/socket.c:734 [inline]\n__sys_sendto+0x46d/0x5f0 net/socket.c:2117\n__do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2129 [inline]\n__se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2125 [inline]\n__x64_sys_sendto+0xda/0xf0 net/socket.c:2125\ndo_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\ndo_syscall_64+0x2b/0x70 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\nentry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd","published":"2025-09-17T15:15:35.000Z","lastModified":"2026-08-04T10:18:13.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-416"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00408,"percentile":0.3485,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.41%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2d1f274b95c6e4ba6a813b3b8e7a1a38d54a0a08","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/693ddd6ffc05b228ea1638f9d757c5d3541f9446","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-50363","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}