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CVE-2022-49921 (GCVE-0-2022-49921)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-01 14:11 – Updated: 2026-08-05 08:56
VLAI
Title
net: sched: Fix use after free in red_enqueue()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: sched: Fix use after free in red_enqueue() We can't use "skb" again after passing it to qdisc_enqueue(). This is basically identical to commit 2f09707d0c97 ("sch_sfb: Also store skb len before calling child enqueue").
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-01 14:58 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: d7f4f332f082c4d4ba53582f902ed6b44fd6f45e , < 795afe0b9bb6c915f0299a8e309936519be01619 (git)
Affected: d7f4f332f082c4d4ba53582f902ed6b44fd6f45e , < a238cdcf2bdc72207c74375fc8be13ee549ca9db (git)
Affected: d7f4f332f082c4d4ba53582f902ed6b44fd6f45e , < e877f8fa49fbccc63cb2df2e9179bddc695b825a (git)
Affected: d7f4f332f082c4d4ba53582f902ed6b44fd6f45e , < 52e0429471976785c155bfbf51d80990c6cd46e2 (git)
Affected: d7f4f332f082c4d4ba53582f902ed6b44fd6f45e , < 5960b9081baca85cc7dcb14aec1de85999ea9d36 (git)
Affected: d7f4f332f082c4d4ba53582f902ed6b44fd6f45e , < fc4b50adb400ee5ec527a04073174e8e73a139fa (git)
Affected: d7f4f332f082c4d4ba53582f902ed6b44fd6f45e , < 170e5317042c302777ed6d59fdb84af9b0219d4e (git)
Affected: d7f4f332f082c4d4ba53582f902ed6b44fd6f45e , < 8bdc2acd420c6f3dd1f1c78750ec989f02a1e2b9 (git)
Affected: ab0b3b9dbf559a5633d460e748144697bd2d3aa3 (git)
Affected: 4.4.163 , < 4.5 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.7
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.7 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.9.333 , ≤ 4.9.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.299 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.265 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.224 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.154 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.78 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0.8 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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