CVE-2022-50252

Updated on 15 Sep 2025

Severity

7.8 High severity

Details

CVSS score
7.8
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

igb: Do not free q_vector unless new one was allocated

Avoid potential use-after-free condition under memory pressure. If the kzalloc() fails, q_vector will be freed but left in the original adapter->q_vector[v_idx] array position.

Details

Affected packages:
linux-hwe @ 4.15.0 (+8 more)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

igb: Do not free q_vector unless new one was allocated

Avoid potential use-after-free condition under memory pressure. If the kzalloc() fails, q_vector will be freed but left in the original adapter->q_vector[v_idx] array position.

Fixes