Linux Kernel up to 5.15.57/5.18.14 RDMA/irdma irdma_cm_teardown_connections stack-based overflow

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in Linux Kernel up to 5.15.57/5.18.14. The affected element is the function irdma_cm_teardown_connections of the component RDMA/irdma. Such manipulation leads to stack-based overflow. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2022-49606. There is not any exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 5.15.57/5.18.14. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is the function irdma_cm_teardown_connections of the component RDMA/irdma. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a stack-based overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-121. A stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function). Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/irdma: Fix sleep from invalid context BUG Taking the qos_mutex to process RoCEv2 QP's on netdev events causes a kernel splat. Fix this by removing the handling for RoCEv2 in irdma_cm_teardown_connections that uses the mutex. This handling is only needed for iWARP to avoid having connections established while the link is down or having connections remain functional after the IP address is removed. BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex. Call Trace: kernel: dump_stack+0x66/0x90 kernel: ___might_sleep.cold.92+0x8d/0x9a kernel: mutex_lock+0x1c/0x40 kernel: irdma_cm_teardown_connections+0x28e/0x4d0 [irdma] kernel: ? check_preempt_curr+0x7a/0x90 kernel: ? select_idle_sibling+0x22/0x3c0 kernel: ? select_task_rq_fair+0x94c/0xc90 kernel: ? irdma_exec_cqp_cmd+0xc27/0x17c0 [irdma] kernel: ? __wake_up_common+0x7a/0x190 kernel: irdma_if_notify+0x3cc/0x450 [irdma] kernel: ? sched_clock_cpu+0xc/0xb0 kernel: irdma_inet6addr_event+0xc6/0x150 [irdma]

The advisory is shared for download at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2022-49606 since 02/26/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 10/23/2025).

Upgrading to version 5.15.58 or 5.18.15 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch a4c5115140ed1833197bad9a6b80265840ff427f/2cae7e519032e4b4672cb9204d5586a441924364/cc0315564d6eec91c716d314b743321be24c70b3 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at git.kernel.org. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 5.15.0
• 5.15.1
• 5.15.2
• 5.15.3
• 5.15.4
• 5.15.5
• 5.15.6
• 5.15.7
• 5.15.8
• 5.15.9
• 5.15.10
• 5.15.11
• 5.15.12
• 5.15.13
• 5.15.14
• 5.15.15
• 5.15.16
• 5.15.17
• 5.15.18
• 5.15.19
• 5.15.20
• 5.15.21
• 5.15.22
• 5.15.23
• 5.15.24
• 5.15.25
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• 5.15.33
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• 5.15.36
• 5.15.37
• 5.15.38
• 5.15.39
• 5.15.40
• 5.15.41
• 5.15.42
• 5.15.43
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• 5.15.46
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• 5.15.48
• 5.15.49
• 5.15.50
• 5.15.51
• 5.15.52
• 5.15.53
• 5.15.54
• 5.15.55
• 5.15.56
• 5.15.57
• 5.18.0
• 5.18.1
• 5.18.2
• 5.18.3
• 5.18.4
• 5.18.5
• 5.18.6
• 5.18.7
• 5.18.8
• 5.18.9
• 5.18.10
• 5.18.11
• 5.18.12
• 5.18.13
• 5.18.14

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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