CVE-2022-50137 (GCVE-0-2022-50137)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-18 11:03 – Updated: 2026-08-05 08:57
VLAI
Title
RDMA/irdma: Fix a window for use-after-free
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/irdma: Fix a window for use-after-free During a destroy CQ an interrupt may cause processing of a CQE after CQ resources are freed by irdma_cq_free_rsrc(). Fix this by moving the call to irdma_cq_free_rsrc() after the irdma_sc_cleanup_ceqes(), which is called under the cq_lock.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7033 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: b48c24c2d710cf34810c555dcef883a3d35a9c08 , < 92520864ef9f912f38b403d172a0ded020683d55 (git)
Affected: b48c24c2d710cf34810c555dcef883a3d35a9c08 , < 0abf2eef80295923b819ce89ff9edc1fe61be17c (git)
Affected: b48c24c2d710cf34810c555dcef883a3d35a9c08 , < 350ac793a03c8a30a3f2b27fc282cd1c67070763 (git)
Affected: b48c24c2d710cf34810c555dcef883a3d35a9c08 , < 8ecef7890b3aea78c8bbb501a4b5b8134367b821 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.14
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.14 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.61 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.18.18 , ≤ 5.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.19.2 , ≤ 5.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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