CVE-2022-49906

ibmvnic: Free rwi on reset success

CVSS 5.5 MEDIUMEPSS 0.2%CWE-401

Vexday Risk Score

13Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 5.5EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

01 May 2025Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ibmvnic: Free rwi on reset success Free the rwi structure in the event that the last rwi in the list processed successfully. The logic in commit 4f408e1fa6e1 ("ibmvnic: retry reset if there are no other resets") introduces an issue that results in a 32 byte memory leak whenever the last rwi in the list gets processed.

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

Affected products

Linux · Linux

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References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/535b78739ae75f257c894a05b1afa86ad9a3669e https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c3543a287cfba9105dcc4bb41eb817f51266caaf https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d6dd2fe71153f0ff748bf188bd4af076fe09a0a6