Use After Free Affecting kernel-macros package, versions <5.14.21-150500.55.124.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-KERNELMACROS-13608939
  • published17 Oct 2025
  • disclosed16 Oct 2025

Introduced: 16 Oct 2025

CVE-2022-50378  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 kernel-macros to version 5.14.21-150500.55.124.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-macros package and not the kernel-macros package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.5 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/meson: reorder driver deinit sequence to fix use-after-free bug

Unloading the driver triggers the following KASAN warning:

[ +0.006275] ============================================================= [ +0.000029] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __list_del_entry_valid+0xe0/0x1a0 [ +0.000026] Read of size 8 at addr ffff000020c395e0 by task rmmod/2695

[ +0.000019] CPU: 5 PID: 2695 Comm: rmmod Tainted: G C O 5.19.0-rc6-lrmbkasan+ #1 [ +0.000013] Hardware name: Hardkernel ODROID-N2Plus (DT) [ +0.000008] Call trace: [ +0.000007] dump_backtrace+0x1ec/0x280 [ +0.000013] show_stack+0x24/0x80 [ +0.000008] dump_stack_lvl+0x98/0xd4 [ +0.000011] print_address_description.constprop.0+0x80/0x520 [ +0.000011] print_report+0x128/0x260 [ +0.000007] kasan_report+0xb8/0xfc [ +0.000008] __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x3c/0x50 [ +0.000010] __list_del_entry_valid+0xe0/0x1a0 [ +0.000009] drm_atomic_private_obj_fini+0x30/0x200 [drm] [ +0.000172] drm_bridge_detach+0x94/0x260 [drm] [ +0.000145] drm_encoder_cleanup+0xa4/0x290 [drm] [ +0.000144] drm_mode_config_cleanup+0x118/0x740 [drm] [ +0.000143] drm_mode_config_init_release+0x1c/0x2c [drm] [ +0.000144] drm_managed_release+0x170/0x414 [drm] [ +0.000142] drm_dev_put.part.0+0xc0/0x124 [drm] [ +0.000143] drm_dev_put+0x20/0x30 [drm] [ +0.000142] meson_drv_unbind+0x1d8/0x2ac [meson_drm] [ +0.000028] take_down_aggregate_device+0xb0/0x160 [ +0.000016] component_del+0x18c/0x360 [ +0.000009] meson_dw_hdmi_remove+0x28/0x40 [meson_dw_hdmi] [ +0.000015] platform_remove+0x64/0xb0 [ +0.000009] device_remove+0xb8/0x154 [ +0.000009] device_release_driver_internal+0x398/0x5b0 [ +0.000009] driver_detach+0xac/0x1b0 [ +0.000009] bus_remove_driver+0x158/0x29c [ +0.000009] driver_unregister+0x70/0xb0 [ +0.000008] platform_driver_unregister+0x20/0x2c [ +0.000008] meson_dw_hdmi_platform_driver_exit+0x1c/0x30 [meson_dw_hdmi] [ +0.000012] __do_sys_delete_module+0x288/0x400 [ +0.000011] __arm64_sys_delete_module+0x5c/0x80 [ +0.000009] invoke_syscall+0x74/0x260 [ +0.000009] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xcc/0x260 [ +0.000009] do_el0_svc+0x50/0x70 [ +0.000007] el0_svc+0x68/0x1a0 [ +0.000012] el0t_64_sync_handler+0x11c/0x150 [ +0.000008] el0t_64_sync+0x18c/0x190

[ +0.000018] Allocated by task 0: [ +0.000007] (stack is not available)

[ +0.000011] Freed by task 2695: [ +0.000008] kasan_save_stack+0x2c/0x5c [ +0.000011] kasan_set_track+0x2c/0x40 [ +0.000008] kasan_set_free_info+0x28/0x50 [ +0.000009] ____kasan_slab_free+0x128/0x1d4 [ +0.000008] __kasan_slab_free+0x18/0x24 [ +0.000007] slab_free_freelist_hook+0x108/0x230 [ +0.000011] kfree+0x110/0x35c [ +0.000008] release_nodes+0xf0/0x16c [ +0.000009] devres_release_group+0x180/0x270 [ +0.000008] component_unbind+0x128/0x1e0 [ +0.000010] component_unbind_all+0x1b8/0x264 [ +0.000009] meson_drv_unbind+0x1a0/0x2ac [meson_drm] [ +0.000025] take_down_aggregate_device+0xb0/0x160 [ +0.000009] component_del+0x18c/0x360 [ +0.000009] meson_dw_hdmi_remove+0x28/0x40 [meson_dw_hdmi] [ +0.000012] platform_remove+0x64/0xb0 [ +0.000008] device_remove+0xb8/0x154 [ +0.000009] device_release_driver_internal+0x398/0x5b0 [ +0.000009] driver_detach+0xac/0x1b0 [ +0.000009] bus_remove_driver+0x158/0x29c [ +0.000008] driver_unregister+0x70/0xb0 [ +0.000008] platform_driver_unregister+0x20/0x2c [ +0.000008] meson_dw_hdmi_platform_driver_exit+0x1c/0x30 [meson_dw_hdmi] [ +0.000011] __do_sys_delete_module+0x288/0x400 [ +0.000010] __arm64_sys_delete_module+0x5c/0x80 [ +0.000008] invoke_syscall+0x74/0x260 [ +0.000008] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xcc/0x260 [ +0.000008] do_el0_svc+0x50/0x70 [ +0.000007] el0_svc+0x68/0x1a0 [ +0.000009] el0t_64_sync_handler+0x11c/0x150 [ +0.000009] el0t_64_sync+0x18c/0x190

[ +0.000014] The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff000020c39000 ---truncated---

CVSS Base Scores

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