Linux Kernel up to 5.18.5 memory corruption

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 5.18.5. It has been declared as critical. This impacts an unknown function. The manipulation results in memory corruption. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2022-49722. No exploit is available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 5.18.5. It has been classified as critical. Affected is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ice: Fix memory corruption in VF driver Disable VF's RX/TX queues, when it's disabled. VF can have queues enabled, when it requests a reset. If PF driver assumes that VF is disabled, while VF still has queues configured, VF may unmap DMA resources. In such scenario device still can map packets to memory, which ends up silently corrupting it. Previously, VF driver could experience memory corruption, which lead to crash: [ 5119.170157] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 00001b9780003237 [ 5119.170166] PGD 0 P4D 0 [ 5119.170173] Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT_RT SMP PTI [ 5119.170181] CPU: 30 PID: 427592 Comm: kworker/u96:2 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W I --------- - - 4.18.0-372.9.1.rt7.166.el8.x86_64 #1 [ 5119.170189] Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R740/014X06, BIOS 2.3.10 08/15/2019 [ 5119.170193] Workqueue: iavf iavf_adminq_task [iavf] [ 5119.170219] RIP: 0010:__page_frag_cache_drain+0x5/0x30 [ 5119.170238] Code: 0f 0f b6 77 51 85 f6 74 07 31 d2 e9 05 df ff ff e9 90 fe ff ff 48 8b 05 49 db 33 01 eb b4 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 29 77 34 74 01 c3 48 8b 07 f6 c4 80 74 0f 0f b6 77 51 85 f6 74 [ 5119.170244] RSP: 0018:ffffa43b0bdcfd78 EFLAGS: 00010282 [ 5119.170250] RAX: ffffffff896b3e40 RBX: ffff8fb282524000 RCX: 0000000000000002 [ 5119.170254] RDX: 0000000049000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 00001b9780003203 [ 5119.170259] RBP: ffff8fb248217b00 R08: 0000000000000022 R09: 0000000000000009 [ 5119.170262] R10: 2b849d6300000000 R11: 0000000000000020 R12: 0000000000000000 [ 5119.170265] R13: 0000000000001000 R14: 0000000000000009 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 5119.170269] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8fb1201c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 5119.170274] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 5119.170279] CR2: 00001b9780003237 CR3: 00000008f3e1a003 CR4: 00000000007726e0 [ 5119.170283] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 5119.170286] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 5119.170290] PKRU: 55555554 [ 5119.170292] Call Trace: [ 5119.170298] iavf_clean_rx_ring+0xad/0x110 [iavf] [ 5119.170324] iavf_free_rx_resources+0xe/0x50 [iavf] [ 5119.170342] iavf_free_all_rx_resources.part.51+0x30/0x40 [iavf] [ 5119.170358] iavf_virtchnl_completion+0xd8a/0x15b0 [iavf] [ 5119.170377] ? iavf_clean_arq_element+0x210/0x280 [iavf] [ 5119.170397] iavf_adminq_task+0x126/0x2e0 [iavf] [ 5119.170416] process_one_work+0x18f/0x420 [ 5119.170429] worker_thread+0x30/0x370 [ 5119.170437] ? process_one_work+0x420/0x420 [ 5119.170445] kthread+0x151/0x170 [ 5119.170452] ? set_kthread_struct+0x40/0x40 [ 5119.170460] ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40 [ 5119.170477] Modules linked in: iavf sctp ip6_udp_tunnel udp_tunnel mlx4_en mlx4_core nfp tls vhost_net vhost vhost_iotlb tap tun xt_CHECKSUM ipt_MASQUERADE xt_conntrack ipt_REJECT nf_reject_ipv4 nft_compat nft_counter nft_chain_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 nf_tables nfnetlink bridge stp llc rpcsec_gss_krb5 auth_rpcgss nfsv4 dns_resolver nfs lockd grace fscache sunrpc intel_rapl_msr iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support dell_smbios wmi_bmof dell_wmi_descriptor dcdbas kvm_intel kvm irqbypass intel_rapl_common isst_if_common skx_edac irdma nfit libnvdimm x86_pkg_temp_thermal i40e intel_powerclamp coretemp crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel ib_uverbs rapl ipmi_ssif intel_cstate intel_uncore mei_me pcspkr acpi_ipmi ib_core mei lpc_ich i2c_i801 ipmi_si ipmi_devintf wmi ipmi_msghandler acpi_power_meter xfs libcrc32c sd_mod t10_pi sg mgag200 drm_kms_helper syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt fb_sys_fops ice ahci drm libahci crc32c_intel libata tg3 megaraid_sas [ 5119.170613] i2c_algo_bit dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod fuse [last unloaded: iavf] [ 5119.170627] CR2: 00001b9780003237

The advisory is shared for download at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2022-49722 since 02/26/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 10/24/2025).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 241018 (EulerOS 2.0 SP13 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2025-1704)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 5.18.6 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 1bb8253b1dd44cf004e12c333acc6f25ee286cf3/efe41860008e57fb6b69855b4b93fdf34bc42798 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.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (241018). VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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• Operating System

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• Linux

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• Kernel

Version

• 5.18.0
• 5.18.1
• 5.18.2
• 5.18.3
• 5.18.4
• 5.18.5

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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