CVE-2022-49598 (GCVE-0-2022-49598)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-26 02:23 – Updated: 2025-10-01 19:36
VLAI?
Title
tcp: Fix data-races around sysctl_tcp_mtu_probing.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tcp: Fix data-races around sysctl_tcp_mtu_probing. While reading sysctl_tcp_mtu_probing, it can be changed concurrently. Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its readers.
Severity ?
4.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-362 - Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 5d424d5a674f782d0659a3b66d951f412901faee , < 7e8fc428a7f680f1c4994a40e52d7f95a9a93038 (git)
Affected: 5d424d5a674f782d0659a3b66d951f412901faee , < f966773e13cdd3f12baa90071b7b660f6c633ccb (git)
Affected: 5d424d5a674f782d0659a3b66d951f412901faee , < 77a04845f0d28a3561494a5f3121488470a968a4 (git)
Affected: 5d424d5a674f782d0659a3b66d951f412901faee , < aabe9438fdfe004e021d5a206227ec105dbe2416 (git)
Affected: 5d424d5a674f782d0659a3b66d951f412901faee , < b0920ca09d9ce19980c8391b9002455baa9c1417 (git)
Affected: 5d424d5a674f782d0659a3b66d951f412901faee , < f47d00e077e7d61baf69e46dde3210c886360207 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.17
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.17 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.254 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.208 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.134 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.58 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.18.15 , ≤ 5.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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