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CVE-2022-48721: net/smc: Forward wakeup to smc socket waitqueue after fallback

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 22/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.23% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • Fixed version: Linux Linux 0ef6049f664941bc0f75828b3a61877635048b27, 341adeec9adad0874f29a0a1af35638207352a39, 5.11.
  • Severity is disputed: the assigning authority (CNA) scores it 7.8, NVD 5.5.
  • Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Linux Linux 0ef6049f664941bc0f75828b3a61877635048b27, 341adeec9adad0874f29a0a1af35638207352a39, 5.11 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/smc: Forward wakeup to smc socket waitqueue after fallback When we replace TCP with SMC and a fallback occurs, there may be some socket waitqueue entries remaining in smc socket->wq, such as eppoll_entries inserted by userspace applications. After the fallback, data flows over TCP/IP and only clcsocket->wq will be woken up. Applications can't be notified by the entries which were inserted in smc socket->wq before fallback. So we need a mechanism to wake up smc socket->wq at the same time if some entries remaining in it. The current workaround is to transfer the entries from smc socket->wq to clcsock->wq during the fallback. But this may cause a crash like this: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdead000000000100: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI CPU: 3 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/3 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G E 5.16.0+ #107 RIP: 0010:__wake_up_common+0x65/0x170 Call Trace: <IRQ> __wake_up_common_lock+0x7a/0xc0 sock_def_readable+0x3c/0x70 tcp_data_queue+0x4a7/0xc40 tcp_rcv_established+0x32f/0x660 ? sk_filter_trim_cap+0xcb/0x2e0 tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x10b/0x260 tcp_v4_rcv+0xd2a/0xde0 ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x3b/0x1d0 ip_local_deliver_finish+0x54/0x60 ip_local_deliver+0x6a/0x110 ? tcp_v4_early_demux+0xa2/0x140 ? tcp_v4_early_demux+0x10d/0x140 ip_sublist_rcv_finish+0x49/0x60 ip_sublist_rcv+0x19d/0x230 ip_list_rcv+0x13e/0x170 __netif_receive_skb_list_core+0x1c2/0x240 netif_receive_skb_list_internal+0x1e6/0x320 napi_complete_done+0x11d/0x190 mlx5e_napi_poll+0x163/0x6b0 [mlx5_core] __napi_poll+0x3c/0x1b0 net_rx_action+0x27c/0x300 __do_softirq+0x114/0x2d2 irq_exit_rcu+0xb4/0xe0 common_interrupt+0xba/0xe0 </IRQ> <TASK> The crash is caused by privately transferring waitqueue entries from smc socket->wq to clcsock->wq. The owners of these entries, such as epoll, have no idea that the entries have been transferred to a different socket wait queue and still use original waitqueue spinlock (smc socket->wq.wait.lock) to make the entries operation exclusive, but it doesn't work. The operations to the entries, such as removing from the waitqueue (now is clcsock->wq after fallback), may cause a crash when clcsock waitqueue is being iterated over at the moment. This patch tries to fix this by no longer transferring wait queue entries privately, but introducing own implementations of clcsock's callback functions in fallback situation. The callback functions will forward the wakeup to smc socket->wq if clcsock->wq is actually woken up and smc socket->wq has remaining entries.

MediumCVSS 5.5 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Jun 20, 2024
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
EPSS
0.2% · 14th percentile
CWE
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Action score

22

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
22 / 40 · 5.5 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.2%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD
5.5
CNA · Linux
7.8
2.3 point gap

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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Affected versions

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  • linux linux kernel5.4.164 and later · before 5.5
  • linux linux kernel5.10.84 and later · before 5.11
  • linux linux kernel5.15.7 and later · before 5.15.22
  • linux linux kernel5.16.1 and later · before 5.16.8
  • linux linux kernel5.16
  • linux linux kernel5.17

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Linux). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • Linux Linux

    • d6e981ec9491be5ec46d838b1151e7edefe607f5, ff6eeb627898c179aac421af5d6515d3f50b84df, 5.16affected
    • fb92e025baa73e99250b79ab64f4e088d2888993 and later · before 0ef6049f664941bc0f75828b3a61877635048b27affected · git
    • 2153bd1e3d3dbf6a3403572084ef6ed31c53c5f0 and later · before 504078fbe9dd570d685361b57784a6050bc40aaaaffected · git
    • 2153bd1e3d3dbf6a3403572084ef6ed31c53c5f0 and later · before 341adeec9adad0874f29a0a1af35638207352a39affected · git
    • 5.15.7 and later · before 5.15.22affected · semver
    • 5.4.164 and later · before 5.5affected · semver
    • 5.10.84 and later · before 5.11affected · semver
    • before 5.16not affected · semver
    • 5.15.22 and later · up to and including 5.15.*not affected · semver
    • 5.16.8 and later · up to and including 5.16.*not affected · semver

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Debian:12linuxbefore 5.16.10-15.16.10-1

Same product

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Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2022-48719Jun 20, 2024 · net, neigh: Do not trigger immediate probes on NUD_FAILED from neigh_managed_work
    22Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2022-48720Jun 20, 2024 · net: macsec: Fix offload support for NETDEV_UNREGISTER event
    22Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2022-48722Jun 20, 2024 · net: ieee802154: ca8210: Stop leaking skb's
    22Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
Linux Linux0ef6049f664941bc0f75828b3a61877635048b27Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux341adeec9adad0874f29a0a1af35638207352a39Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux5.11Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux5.15.22Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux5.5Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux504078fbe9dd570d685361b57784a6050bc40aaaVendor (CNA)
debian:linux5.16.10-1 · Debian:12Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

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Variant candidates

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No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

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National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)

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Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
  • A low-privileged account is enough.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
none
Integrity
none
Availability
high · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
None
Integrity impact
None
Availability impact
High

Weakness class (CWE)

—

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvd-primary

Attack context

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References

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