5.5

CVE-2022-49378: sfc: fix considering that all channels have TX queues

Analyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49378DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49378
Published 26-02-2025Last modified 11-05-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-49378 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 19% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 5.5, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.27%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 6 · Related 4
RHSA-2022:7683RHSA-2022:8267SUSE-SU-2025:1027-1SUSE-SU-2025:1176-1SUSE-SU-2025:1183-1SUSE-SU-2025:1241-1

Timeline

  1. 26-02-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sfc: fix considering that all channels have TX queues Normally, all channels have RX and TX queues, but this is not true if modparam efx_separate_tx_channels=1 is used. In that cases, some channels only have RX queues and others only TX queues (or more preciselly, they have them allocated, but not initialized). Fix efx_channel_has_tx_queues to return the correct value for this case too. Messages shown at probe time before the fix: sfc 0000:03:00.0 ens6f0np0: MC command 0x82 inlen 544 failed rc=-22 (raw=0) arg=0 ------------[ cut here ]------------ netdevice: ens6f0np0: failed to initialise TXQ -1 WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 626 at drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef10.c:2393 efx_ef10_tx_init+0x201/0x300 [sfc] [...] stripped RIP: 0010:efx_ef10_tx_init+0x201/0x300 [sfc] [...] stripped Call Trace: efx_init_tx_queue+0xaa/0xf0 [sfc] efx_start_channels+0x49/0x120 [sfc] efx_start_all+0x1f8/0x430 [sfc] efx_net_open+0x5a/0xe0 [sfc] __dev_open+0xd0/0x190 __dev_change_flags+0x1b3/0x220 dev_change_flags+0x21/0x60 [...] stripped Messages shown at remove time before the fix: sfc 0000:03:00.0 ens6f0np0: failed to flush 10 queues sfc 0000:03:00.0 ens6f0np0: failed to flush queues

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.27%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

19%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.27% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

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CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu94 products
  • linux< 5.15.0-48.54
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 5.15.0-1020.24
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ 8700aff089843399f95bc7701ae87b642b35a716, < 8f81a4113e1e574d2cbde4f2cd599380a9189c0f | ≥ 8700aff089843399f95bc7701ae87b642b35a716, < 5567d69b95b9c07e1c56f15cf0301251d12e5f97 | ≥ 8700aff089843399f95bc7701ae87b642b35a716, < e7e8d5e25dc762b70f9c88ec6b7d451d0816eead | ≥ 8700aff089843399f95bc7701ae87b642b35a716, < 913d45f02d346ce41c4aad057eaf53a8ed449dc3 | ≥ 8700aff089843399f95bc7701ae87b642b35a716, < 2e102b53f8a778f872dc137f4c7ac548705817aa | 5.5
  • linux_kernel≥ 5.5.1, < 5.10.122 | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.47 | ≥ 5.16, < 5.17.15 | ≥ 5.18, < 5.18.4 | 5.5 | 5.5:rc3 | 5.5:rc4 | 5.5:rc5 | 5.5:rc6 | 5.5:rc7
Debian1 product
  • linux< 5.18.5-1

3 vendors · 97 products

References

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