CVE-2025-22118 (GCVE-0-2025-22118)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-16 14:13 – Updated: 2026-08-05 11:56
VLAI
Title
ice: validate queue quanta parameters to prevent OOB access
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ice: validate queue quanta parameters to prevent OOB access Add queue wraparound prevention in quanta configuration. Ensure end_qid does not overflow by validating start_qid and num_queues.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6641 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 015307754a19832dd665295f6c123289b0f37ba6 , < 4161cf3f4c11006507f4e02bedc048a215a4b81a (git)
Affected: 015307754a19832dd665295f6c123289b0f37ba6 , < e2f7d3f7331b92cb820da23e8c45133305da1e63 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.13
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.13 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.14.2 , ≤ 6.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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