CVE Catalog

CVE-2022-49672

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.30%

22th percentile - higher than 22% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the tun driver has a vulnerability involving a race between tun file and device destruction. NAPIs in struct tun_file can be destroyed before the netdev, and the code does not explicitly delete the NAPI if the queue was detached first.

Risk Assessment

This could lead to use-after-free, system crashes, or potentially privilege escalation in environments using virtual network interfaces.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that explicitly deletes NAPI during device destruction.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: tun: unlink NAPI from device on destruction Syzbot found a race between tun file and device destruction. NAPIs live in struct tun_file which can get destroyed before the netdev so we have to del them explicitly. The current code is missing deleting the NAPI if the queue was detached first.

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