CVE - CVE-2022-50095

CVE-ID
CVE-2022-50095	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: posix-cpu-timers: Cleanup CPU timers before freeing them during exec Commit 55e8c8eb2c7b ("posix-cpu-timers: Store a reference to a pid not a task") started looking up tasks by PID when deleting a CPU timer. When a non-leader thread calls execve, it will switch PIDs with the leader process. Then, as it calls exit_itimers, posix_cpu_timer_del cannot find the task because the timer still points out to the old PID. That means that armed timers won't be disarmed, that is, they won't be removed from the timerqueue_list. exit_itimers will still release their memory, and when that list is later processed, it leads to a use-after-free. Clean up the timers from the de-threaded task before freeing them. This prevents a reported use-after-free.
References
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MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/541840859ace9c2ccebc32fa9e376c7bd3def490 URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/541840859ace9c2ccebc32fa9e376c7bd3def490 MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e255ed238fc67058df87b0388ad6d4b2ef3a2bd URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e255ed238fc67058df87b0388ad6d4b2ef3a2bd MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b2fc1723eb65abb83e00d5f011de670296af0b28 URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b2fc1723eb65abb83e00d5f011de670296af0b28 MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e362359ace6f87c201531872486ff295df306d13 URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e362359ace6f87c201531872486ff295df306d13 MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e8cb6e8fd9890780f1bfcf5592889e1b879e779c URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e8cb6e8fd9890780f1bfcf5592889e1b879e779c
Assigning CNA
kernel.org
Date Record Created
20250618	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20250618)
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