CVE-2022-50433 (GCVE-0-2022-50433)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-01 11:42 – Updated: 2026-11-05 20:20
VLAI
Title
efi: ssdt: Don't free memory if ACPI table was loaded successfully
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: efi: ssdt: Don't free memory if ACPI table was loaded successfully Amadeusz reports KASAN use-after-free errors introduced by commit 3881ee0b1edc ("efi: avoid efivars layer when loading SSDTs from variables"). The problem appears to be that the memory that holds the new ACPI table is now freed unconditionally, instead of only when the ACPI core reported a failure to load the table. So let's fix this, by omitting the kfree() on success.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-11-05 20:10 UTC
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6639 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 3881ee0b1edce0ece72d24b7c74f46b73bd6dcba , < 11497fd69cd2282538ec6eb4cda1d16fc061233d (git)
Affected: 3881ee0b1edce0ece72d24b7c74f46b73bd6dcba , < 4b017e59f01097f19b938f6dc4dc2c4720701610 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.0
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.0 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0.4 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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