# CVE-2022-49722: ice: Fix memory corruption in VF driver

> A race condition in the Intel ice VF driver causes memory corruption and kernel crashes when VF queues are improperly disabled.

- **Severity:** High 7.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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:** 5 Aug 2026
- **Also known as:** AZL-68805, DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49722, GHSA-h43m-2hvj-4frc, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2022-49722, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2022-49722, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49722

## What is CVE-2022-49722?

CVE-2022-49722 is a high-severity memory corruption 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:

ice: Fix memory corruption in VF driver

Disable VF's RX/TX queues, when it's disabled. VF can have queues enabled,
when it requests a reset. If PF driver assumes that VF is disabled,
while VF still has queues configured, VF may unmap DMA resources.
In such scenario device still can map packets to memory, which ends up
silently corrupting it.
Previously, VF driver could experience memory corruption, which lead to
crash:
[ 5119.170157] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 00001b9780003237
[ 5119.170166] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ 5119.170173] Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT_RT SMP PTI
[ 5119.170181] CPU: 30 PID: 427592 Comm: kworker/u96:2 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G        W I      --------- -  - 4.18.0-372.9.1.rt7.166.el8.x86_64 #1
[ 5119.170189] Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R740/014X06, BIOS 2.3.10 08/15/2019
[ 5119.170193] Workqueue: iavf iavf_adminq_task [iavf]
[ 5119.170219] RIP: 0010:__page_frag_cache_drain+0x5/0x30
[ 5119.170238] Code: 0f 0f b6 77 51 85 f6 74 07 31 d2 e9 05 df ff ff e9 90 fe ff ff 48 8b 05 49 db 33 01 eb b4 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 <f0> 29 77 34 74 01 c3 48 8b 07 f6 c4 80 74 0f 0f b6 77 51 85 f6 74
[ 5119.170244] RSP: 0018:ffffa43b0bdcfd78 EFLAGS: 00010282
[ 5119.170250] RAX: ffffffff896b3e40 RBX: ffff8fb282524000 RCX: 0000000000000002
[ 5119.170254] RDX: 0000000049000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 00001b9780003203
[ 5119.170259] RBP: ffff8fb248217b00 R08: 0000000000000022 R09: 0000000000000009
[ 5119.170262] R10: 2b849d6300000000 R11: 0000000000000020 R12: 0000000000000000
[ 5119.170265] R13: 0000000000001000 R14: 0000000000000009 R15: 0000000000000000
[ 5119.170269] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8fb1201c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 5119.170274] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 5119.170279] CR2: 00001b9780003237 CR3: 00000008f3e1a003 CR4: 00000000007726e0
[ 5119.170283] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[ 5119.170286] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[ 5119.170290] PKRU: 55555554
[ 5119.170292] Call Trace:
[ 5119.170298]  iavf_clean_rx_ring+0xad/0x110 [iavf]
[ 5119.170324]  iavf_free_rx_resources+0xe/0x50 [iavf]
[ 5119.170342]  iavf_free_all_rx_resources.part.51+0x30/0x40 [iavf]
[ 5119.170358]  iavf_virtchnl_completion+0xd8a/0x15b0 [iavf]
[ 5119.170377]  ? iavf_clean_arq_element+0x210/0x280 [iavf]
[ 5119.170397]  iavf_adminq_task+0x126/0x2e0 [iavf]
[ 5119.170416]  process_one_work+0x18f/0x420
[ 5119.170429]  worker_thread+0x30/0x370
[ 5119.170437]  ? process_one_work+0x420/0x420
[ 5119.170445]  kthread+0x151/0x170
[ 5119.170452]  ? set_kthread_struct+0x40/0x40
[ 5119.170460]  ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
[ 5119.170477] Modules linked in: iavf sctp ip6_udp_tunnel udp_tunnel mlx4_en mlx4_core nfp tls vhost_net vhost vhost_iotlb tap tun xt_CHECKSUM ipt_MASQUERADE xt_conntrack ipt_REJECT nf_reject_ipv4 nft_compat nft_counter nft_chain_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 nf_tables nfnetlink bridge stp llc rpcsec_gss_krb5 auth_rpcgss nfsv4 dns_resolver nfs lockd grace fscache sunrpc intel_rapl_msr iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support dell_smbios wmi_bmof dell_wmi_descriptor dcdbas kvm_intel kvm irqbypass intel_rapl_common isst_if_common skx_edac irdma nfit libnvdimm x86_pkg_temp_thermal i40e intel_powerclamp coretemp crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel ib_uverbs rapl ipmi_ssif intel_cstate intel_uncore mei_me pcspkr acpi_ipmi ib_core mei lpc_ich i2c_i801 ipmi_si ipmi_devintf wmi ipmi_msghandler acpi_power_meter xfs libcrc32c sd_mod t10_pi sg mgag200 drm_kms_helper syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt fb_sys_fops ice ahci drm libahci crc32c_intel libata tg3 megaraid_sas
[ 5119.170613]  i2c_algo_bit dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod fuse [last unloaded: iavf]
[ 5119.170627] CR2: 00001b9780003237

Weakness: CWE-787 (Out-of-bounds Write)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-49722?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-49722?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2022-49722 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49722 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-2022-49722 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-49722 is a high-severity memory corruption 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-2022-49722 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-2022-49722/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-49722/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49722
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49722
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-49722

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