CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-42328

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2022-12-07 Modified 2026-10-14 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-12-07
Last modified
2026-10-14
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
6.2 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-667

Description

Guests can trigger deadlock in Linux netback driver T[his CNA information record relates to multiple CVEs; the text explains which aspects/vulnerabilities correspond to which CVE.] The patch for XSA-392 introduced another issue which might result in a deadlock when trying to free the SKB of a packet dropped due to the XSA-392 handling (CVE-2022-42328). Additionally when dropping packages for other reasons the same deadlock could occur in case of netpoll being active for the interface the xen-netback driver is connected to (CVE-2022-42329).

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 6.0) • debian debian linux 10.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-667 Improper Locking weakness

References