CVE-2022-49672 (GCVE-0-2022-49672)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-26 02:24 – Updated: 2026-08-05 08:56
VLAI
Title
net: tun: unlink NAPI from device on destruction
Summary
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.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 943170998b200190f99d3fe7e771437e2c51f319 , < 82e729aee59acefe135fceffadcbc5b86dd4f1b9 (git)
Affected: 943170998b200190f99d3fe7e771437e2c51f319 , < a8cf919022373c97a84fe596bbea544f909c485d (git)
Affected: 943170998b200190f99d3fe7e771437e2c51f319 , < bec1be0a745ab420718217e3e0d9542a75108989 (git)
Affected: 943170998b200190f99d3fe7e771437e2c51f319 , < 8145f77d38de4f88b8a69e1463f5c09ba189d77c (git)
Affected: 943170998b200190f99d3fe7e771437e2c51f319 , < 8661d4b8faa2f7ee7a559969c0a7c57f077b1728 (git)
Affected: 943170998b200190f99d3fe7e771437e2c51f319 , < 3b9bc84d311104906d2b4995a9a02d7b7ddab2db (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.251 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.204 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.129 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.53 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.18.10 , ≤ 5.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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