CVE-2022-50256
CVE-2022-50256CVE-2022-50256
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/meson: remove drm bridges at aggregate driver unbind time
drm bridges added by meson_encoder_hdmi_init and meson_encoder_cvbs_init
were not manually removed at module unload time, which caused dangling
references to freed memory to remain linked in the global bridge_list.
When loading the driver modules back in, the same functions would again
call drm_bridge_add, and when traversing the global bridge_list, would
end up peeking into freed memory.
Once again KASAN revealed the problem:
[ +0.000095] =============================================================
[ +0.000008] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __list_add_valid+0x9c/0x120
[ +0.000018] Read of size 8 at addr ffff00003da291f0 by task modprobe/2483
[ +0.000018] CPU: 3 PID: 2483 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G C O 5.19.0-rc6-lrmbkasan+ #1
[ +0.000011] Hardware name: Hardkernel ODROID-N2Plus (DT)
[ +0.000008] Call trace:
[ +0.000006] dump_backt
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.8 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Last modified | 2026-08-15 |