# CVE-2022-48652: ice: Fix crash by keep old cfg when update TCs more than queues > A local attacker can cause a kernel crash in the Intel ice driver by triggering a null pointer dereference during Traffic Class updates. - **Severity:** High 8.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`) - **Exploited in the wild:** Not known - **Login needed:** Not needed - **Attackable:** Local or same network only - **Victim action needed:** Not needed - **Fix available:** Yes - **Published:** 28 Apr 2024 - **Updated:** 5 Aug 2026 - **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48652, GHSA-4j53-q2r4-27jv, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48652 ## What is CVE-2022-48652? CVE-2022-48652 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 28 Apr 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim. ### Official description In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ice: Fix crash by keep old cfg when update TCs more than queues There are problems if allocated queues less than Traffic Classes. Commit a632b2a4c920 ("ice: ethtool: Prohibit improper channel config for DCB") already disallow setting less queues than TCs. Another case is if we first set less queues, and later update more TCs config due to LLDP, ice_vsi_cfg_tc() will failed but left dirty num_txq/rxq and tc_cfg in vsi, that will cause invalid pointer access. [ 95.968089] ice 0000:3b:00.1: More TCs defined than queues/rings allocated. [ 95.968092] ice 0000:3b:00.1: Trying to use more Rx queues (8), than were allocated (1)! [ 95.968093] ice 0000:3b:00.1: Failed to config TC for VSI index: 0 [ 95.969621] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI [ 95.969705] CPU: 1 PID: 58405 Comm: lldpad Kdump: loaded Tainted: G U W O --------- -t - 4.18.0 #1 [ 95.969867] Hardware name: O.E.M/BC11SPSCB10, BIOS 8.23 12/30/2021 [ 95.969992] RIP: 0010:devm_kmalloc+0xa/0x60 [ 95.970052] Code: 5c ff ff ff 31 c0 5b 5d 41 5c c3 b8 f4 ff ff ff eb f4 0f 1f 40 00 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 89 d1 <8b> 97 60 02 00 00 48 8d 7e 18 48 39 f7 72 3f 55 89 ce 53 48 8b 4c [ 95.970344] RSP: 0018:ffffc9003f553888 EFLAGS: 00010206 [ 95.970425] RAX: dead000000000200 RBX: ffffea003c425b00 RCX: 00000000006080c0 [ 95.970536] RDX: 00000000006080c0 RSI: 0000000000000200 RDI: dead000000000200 [ 95.970648] RBP: dead000000000200 R08: 00000000000463c0 R09: ffff888ffa900000 [ 95.970760] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: ffff888ff6b40100 [ 95.970870] R13: ffff888ff6a55018 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff888ff6a55460 [ 95.970981] FS: 00007f51b7d24700(0000) GS:ffff88903ee80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 95.971108] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 95.971197] CR2: 00007fac5410d710 CR3: 0000000f2c1de002 CR4: 00000000007606e0 [ 95.971309] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 95.971419] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 95.971530] PKRU: 55555554 [ 95.971573] Call Trace: [ 95.971622] ice_setup_rx_ring+0x39/0x110 [ice] [ 95.971695] ice_vsi_setup_rx_rings+0x54/0x90 [ice] [ 95.971774] ice_vsi_open+0x25/0x120 [ice] [ 95.971843] ice_open_internal+0xb8/0x1f0 [ice] [ 95.971919] ice_ena_vsi+0x4f/0xd0 [ice] [ 95.971987] ice_dcb_ena_dis_vsi.constprop.5+0x29/0x90 [ice] [ 95.972082] ice_pf_dcb_cfg+0x29a/0x380 [ice] [ 95.972154] ice_dcbnl_setets+0x174/0x1b0 [ice] [ 95.972220] dcbnl_ieee_set+0x89/0x230 [ 95.972279] ? dcbnl_ieee_del+0x150/0x150 [ 95.972341] dcb_doit+0x124/0x1b0 [ 95.972392] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x243/0x2f0 [ 95.972457] ? dcb_doit+0x14d/0x1b0 [ 95.972510] ? __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x1d3/0x280 [ 95.972591] ? rtnl_calcit.isra.31+0x100/0x100 [ 95.972661] netlink_rcv_skb+0xcf/0xf0 [ 95.972720] netlink_unicast+0x16d/0x220 [ 95.972781] netlink_sendmsg+0x2ba/0x3a0 [ 95.975891] sock_sendmsg+0x4c/0x50 [ 95.979032] ___sys_sendmsg+0x2e4/0x300 [ 95.982147] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x13e/0x190 [ 95.985242] ? __wake_up_common_lock+0x79/0x90 [ 95.988338] ? __check_object_size+0xac/0x1b0 [ 95.991440] ? _copy_to_user+0x22/0x30 [ 95.994539] ? move_addr_to_user+0xbb/0xd0 [ 95.997619] ? __sys_sendmsg+0x53/0x80 [ 96.000664] __sys_sendmsg+0x53/0x80 [ 96.003747] do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x1d0 [ 96.006862] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x65/0xca Only update num_txq/rxq when passed check, and restore tc_cfg if setup queue map failed. Weakness: CWE-476 (NULL Pointer Dereference) ## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-48652? It affects 1 product. Products: Linux kernel. ## How do I fix CVE-2022-48652? Apply the vendor's patch. ## Is CVE-2022-48652 being exploited? There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-48652 in the wild and no public exploit code. ## Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel - [CVE-2026-53266](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53266/): Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write (high 8.8, exploited in the wild) - [CVE-2013-6282](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-6282/): Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation (high 8.8, exploited in the wild) - [CVE-2022-0185](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0185/): Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow (high 8.4, exploited in the wild) - [CVE-2013-2094](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-2094/): Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation (high 8.4, exploited in the wild) - [CVE-2026-53362](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53362/): Linux Kernel Unspecified (high 7.8, exploited in the wild) ## Fix prompt for AI coding agents ```text Check this codebase for CVE-2022-48652 and fix it if it is affected. What it is: CVE-2022-48652 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 28 Apr 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim. Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-48652 in the wild and no public exploit code. Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page. Task: 1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies. 2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it. 3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead. 4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why. 5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing. Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-48652/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-48652/index.md) ``` ## Sources - CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48652 - NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-48652 - OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-48652 --- From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-48652/ Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.