CVE-2022-50877 (GCVE-0-2022-50877)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-30 12:23 – Updated: 2025-12-30 12:23
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Title
net: broadcom: bcm4908_enet: update TX stats after actual transmission
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: broadcom: bcm4908_enet: update TX stats after actual transmission Queueing packets doesn't guarantee their transmission. Update TX stats after hardware confirms consuming submitted data. This also fixes a possible race and NULL dereference. bcm4908_enet_start_xmit() could try to access skb after freeing it in the bcm4908_enet_poll_tx().
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Linux Linux Affected: 4feffeadbcb2e5b11cbbf191a33c245b74a5837b , < c9589e18a60c55c76772a38117ef9a16b942e56b (git)
Affected: 4feffeadbcb2e5b11cbbf191a33c245b74a5837b , < 2adedc80faec243ede55355e57142110d6f46e08 (git)
Affected: 4feffeadbcb2e5b11cbbf191a33c245b74a5837b , < ef3556ee16c68735ec69bd08df41d1cd83b14ad3 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 5.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.77 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0.7 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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