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CVE-2022-49420

MEDIUM · 5.5 CVSS v3.1 Published 2025-02-26
Fix available
A fix is available. Upgrade to 5.18.3 or later.
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57/100
Remediation priority · Elevated
Zero-click Patch available

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NVD · unedited
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: annotate races around sk->sk_bound_dev_if UDP sendmsg() is lockless, and reads sk->sk_bound_dev_if while this field can be changed by another thread. Adds minimal annotations to avoid KCSAN splats for UDP. Following patches will add more annotations to potential lockless readers. BUG: KCSAN: data-race in __ip6_datagram_connect / udpv6_sendmsg write to 0xffff888136d47a94 of 4 bytes by task 7681 on cpu 0: __ip6_datagram_connect+0x6e2/0x930 net/ipv6/datagram.c:221 ip6_datagram_connect+0x2a/0x40 net/ipv6/datagram.c:272 inet_dgram_connect+0x107/0x190 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:576 __sys_connect_file net/socket.c:1900 [inline] __sys_connect+0x197/0x1b0 net/socket.c:1917 __do_sys_connect net/socket.c:1927 [inline] __se_sys_connect net/socket.c:1924 [inline] __x64_sys_connect+0x3d/0x50 net/socket.c:1924 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x2b/0x50 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae read to 0xffff888136d47a94 of 4 bytes by task 7670 on cpu 1: udpv6_sendmsg+0xc60/0x16e0 net/ipv6/udp.c:1436 inet6_sendmsg+0x5f/0x80 net/ipv6/af_inet6.c:652 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:705 [inline] sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:725 [inline] ____sys_sendmsg+0x39a/0x510 net/socket.c:2413 ___sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2467 [inline] __sys_sendmmsg+0x267/0x4c0 net/socket.c:2553 __do_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2582 [inline] __se_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2579 [inline] __x64_sys_sendmmsg+0x53/0x60 net/socket.c:2579 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x2b/0x50 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae value changed: 0x00000000 -> 0xffffff9b Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on: CPU: 1 PID: 7670 Comm: syz-executor.3 Tainted: G W 5.18.0-rc1-syzkaller-dirty #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011 I chose to not add Fixes: tag because race has minor consequences and stable teams busy enough.

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NVD · CPE data
Linux KernelOperating system
Affected:< 5.18.3

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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dbcve · scoped
Upgrade available Upgrade to 5.18.3 or later
Fixed in 5.18.3
Vendor patch git.kernel.org →
Recommended fix High confidence

Linux Kernel 5.18.3 or later

  1. Upgrade Linux kernel to version 5.18.3 or later. This version includes the commit 20b2f61797873a2b18b5ff1a304ad2674fa1e0a5 which adds minimal annotations to avoid KCSAN data-race splats when reading sk->sk_bound_dev_if in UDP sendmsg operations.
Caveat Minimal. This fix adds data race annotations to prevent false-positive KCSAN warnings; no functional changes to networking behavior.

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