# CVE-2022-49297: nbd: fix io hung while disconnecting device

> A flaw in the Linux kernel's NBD driver causes I/O hangs during device disconnection, leading to a denial of service.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 26 Feb 2025
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49297, GHSA-vcmj-78vv-hvgq, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49297

## What is CVE-2022-49297?

CVE-2022-49297 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 26 Feb 2025. 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:

nbd: fix io hung while disconnecting device

In our tests, "qemu-nbd" triggers a io hung:

INFO: task qemu-nbd:11445 blocked for more than 368 seconds.
      Not tainted 5.18.0-rc3-next-20220422-00003-g2176915513ca #884
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:qemu-nbd        state:D stack:    0 pid:11445 ppid:     1 flags:0x00000000
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __schedule+0x480/0x1050
 ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x3e/0xb0
 schedule+0x9c/0x1b0
 blk_mq_freeze_queue_wait+0x9d/0xf0
 ? ipi_rseq+0x70/0x70
 blk_mq_freeze_queue+0x2b/0x40
 nbd_add_socket+0x6b/0x270 [nbd]
 nbd_ioctl+0x383/0x510 [nbd]
 blkdev_ioctl+0x18e/0x3e0
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0xac/0x120
 do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
RIP: 0033:0x7fd8ff706577
RSP: 002b:00007fd8fcdfebf8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000040000000 RCX: 00007fd8ff706577
RDX: 000000000000000d RSI: 000000000000ab00 RDI: 000000000000000f
RBP: 000000000000000f R08: 000000000000fbe8 R09: 000055fe497c62b0
R10: 00000002aff20000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 000000000000006d
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00007ffe82dc5e70 R15: 00007fd8fcdff9c0

"qemu-ndb -d" will call ioctl 'NBD_DISCONNECT' first, however, following
message was found:

block nbd0: Send disconnect failed -32

Which indicate that something is wrong with the server. Then,
"qemu-nbd -d" will call ioctl 'NBD_CLEAR_SOCK', however ioctl can't clear
requests after commit 2516ab1543fd("nbd: only clear the queue on device
teardown"). And in the meantime, request can't complete through timeout
because nbd_xmit_timeout() will always return 'BLK_EH_RESET_TIMER', which
means such request will never be completed in this situation.

Now that the flag 'NBD_CMD_INFLIGHT' can make sure requests won't
complete multiple times, switch back to call nbd_clear_sock() in
nbd_clear_sock_ioctl(), so that inflight requests can be cleared.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-49297?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-49297?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2022-49297 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49297 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-2022-49297 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-49297 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 26 Feb 2025. 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-2022-49297 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-2022-49297/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-49297/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49297
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49297
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-49297

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-49297/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.