CVE-2022-49637 (GCVE-0-2022-49637)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-26 02:23 – Updated: 2025-10-01 19:36
VLAI?
Title
ipv4: Fix a data-race around sysctl_fib_sync_mem.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv4: Fix a data-race around sysctl_fib_sync_mem. While reading sysctl_fib_sync_mem, it can be changed concurrently. So, we need to add READ_ONCE() to avoid a data-race.
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: 9ab948a91b2c2abc8e82845c0e61f4b1683e3a4f , < 7c1acd98fb221dc0d847451b9ab86319f8b9916c (git)
Affected: 9ab948a91b2c2abc8e82845c0e61f4b1683e3a4f , < 418b191d5f223a8cb6cab09eae1f72c04ba6adf2 (git)
Affected: 9ab948a91b2c2abc8e82845c0e61f4b1683e3a4f , < 9be8aac91960ea32fd0e874758c9afee665c57d2 (git)
Affected: 9ab948a91b2c2abc8e82845c0e61f4b1683e3a4f , < 190cd4ff128373271e065afb20f1d2247b3f10c3 (git)
Affected: 9ab948a91b2c2abc8e82845c0e61f4b1683e3a4f , < 73318c4b7dbd0e781aaababff17376b2894745c0 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 5.2
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.2 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.207 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.132 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.56 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.18.13 , ≤ 5.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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