CVE-2022-49583: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iavf: Fix handling of dummy receive descriptors Fix memory leak caused by not handling dummy receive descriptor properly. iavf_get_rx_buffer now sets the rx_buffer return value for dummy receive descriptors. Without this patch, when the hardware writes a dummy descriptor, iavf would not free the page allocated for the previous receive buffer. This is an unlikely event but can still happen. [Jesse: massaged commit message]

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.1.20, before 5.2 (fixed in 5.2); from 5.2.3, before 5.4.208 (fixed in 5.4.208); from 5.5, before 5.10.134 (fixed in 5.10.134); from 5.11, before 5.15.58 (fixed in 5.15.58); from 5.16, before 5.18.15 (fixed in 5.18.15); version 5.19 only

Published 2025-02-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.