🛡️ CVE-2022-49584 — kernel

🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
5.5
CVSS Score
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Description

ixgbe: Add locking to prevent panic when setting sriov_numvfs to zero

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

ixgbe: Add locking to prevent panic when setting sriov_numvfs to zero

It is possible to disable VFs while the PF driver is processing requests

from the VF driver. This can result in a panic.

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 000000000000106c

PGD 0 P4D 0

Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI

CPU: 8 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/8 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G I --------- -

Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R740/06WXJT, BIOS 2.8.2 08/27/2020

RIP: 0010:ixgbe_msg_task+0x4c8/0x1690 [ixgbe]

Code: 00 00 48 8d 04 40 48 c1 e0 05 89 7c 24 24 89 fd 48 89 44 24 10 83 ff

01 0f 84 b8 04 00 00 4c 8b 64 24 10 4d 03 a5 48 22 00 00 <41> 80 7c 24 4c

00 0f 84 8a 03 00 00 0f b7 c7 83 f8 08 0f 84 8f 0a

RSP: 0018:ffffb337869f8df8 EFLAGS: 00010002

RAX: 0000000000001020 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 000000000000002b

RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: 0000000000000006

RBP: 0000000000000006 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 0000000000029780

R10: 00006957d8f42832 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000001020

R13: ffff8a00e8978ac0 R14: 000000000000002b R15: ffff8a00e8979c80

FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8a07dfd00000(0000) knlGS:00000000000000

CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033

CR2: 000000000000106c CR3: 0000000063e10004 CR4: 00000000007726e0

DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000

DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400

PKRU: 55555554

Call Trace:

<IRQ>

? ttwu_do_wakeup+0x19/0x140

? try_to_wake_up+0x1cd/0x550

? ixgbevf_update_xcast_mode+0x71/0xc0 [ixgbevf]

ixgbe_msix_other+0x17e/0x310 [ixgbe]

__handle_irq_event_percpu+0x40/0x180

handle_irq_event_percpu+0x30/0x80

handle_irq_event+0x36/0x53

handle_edge_irq+0x82/0x190

handle_irq+0x1c/0x30

do_IRQ+0x49/0xd0

common_interrupt+0xf/0xf

This can be eventually be reproduced with the following script:

while :

do

echo 63 > /sys/class/net/<devname>/device/sriov_numvfs

sleep 1

echo 0 > /sys/class/net/<devname>/device/sriov_numvfs

sleep 1

done

Add lock when disabling SR-IOV to prevent process VF mailbox communication.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Affected software

CVE-2022-49584 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • kernel (from 5.16.0 up to 5.18.15)
  • linux-kernel

Timeline and source

Published on 26 February 2025 and last revised on 15 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
github.com (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
git.kernel.org (Package)

CVE-2022-49584 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity Medium
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-02-26
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-07-15

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel 5.16.0 5.18.15
linux-kernel

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