Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-49606

Medium

Published: 26 February 2025

Published
26 February 2025
Modified
23 October 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0011 29.1th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-49606 is a medium-severity Improper Locking (CWE-667) vulnerability in Linux Linux Kernel. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 29.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/irdma: Fix sleep from invalid context BUG Taking the qos_mutex to process RoCEv2 QP's on netdev events causes a kernel splat. Fix this by removing the handling for RoCEv2 in…

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irdma_cm_teardown_connections that uses the mutex. This handling is only needed for iWARP to avoid having connections established while the link is down or having connections remain functional after the IP address is removed. BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex. Call Trace: kernel: dump_stack+0x66/0x90 kernel: ___might_sleep.cold.92+0x8d/0x9a kernel: mutex_lock+0x1c/0x40 kernel: irdma_cm_teardown_connections+0x28e/0x4d0 [irdma] kernel: ? check_preempt_curr+0x7a/0x90 kernel: ? select_idle_sibling+0x22/0x3c0 kernel: ? select_task_rq_fair+0x94c/0xc90 kernel: ? irdma_exec_cqp_cmd+0xc27/0x17c0 [irdma] kernel: ? __wake_up_common+0x7a/0x190 kernel: irdma_if_notify+0x3cc/0x450 [irdma] kernel: ? sched_clock_cpu+0xc/0xb0 kernel: irdma_inet6addr_event+0xc6/0x150 [irdma]

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

linux
linux kernel
5.19 · 5.14 — 5.15.58 · 5.16 — 5.18.15

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References