CVE-2022-42328 Denial of service in Linux

What is CVE-2022-42328?

CVE-2022-42328 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 7 Dec 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Guests can trigger deadlock in Linux netback driver T[his CNA information record relates to multiple CVEs; the text explains which aspects/vulnerabilities correspond to which CVE.] The patch for XSA-392 introduced another issue which might result in a deadlock when trying to free the SKB of a packet dropped due to the XSA-392 handling (CVE-2022-42328). Additionally when dropping packages for other reasons the same deadlock could occur in case of netpoll being active for the interface the xen-netback driver is connected to (CVE-2022-42329).

Weakness: CWE-667

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-42328?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2022-42328?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2022-42328 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-42328 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as AZL-11583, DEBIAN-CVE-2022-42328, GHSA-7mxg-cx88-pj6r, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-42328.