# CVE-2022-50003: ice: xsk: prohibit usage of non-balanced queue id

> A local attacker can cause a kernel crash by configuring asymmetric queue counts and attaching an XSK socket to a non-balanced queue ID.

- **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:** 18 Jun 2025
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50003, GHSA-fxwf-88xm-53qq, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50003

## What is CVE-2022-50003?

CVE-2022-50003 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 18 Jun 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: xsk: prohibit usage of non-balanced queue id

Fix the following scenario:
1. ethtool -L $IFACE rx 8 tx 96
2. xdpsock -q 10 -t -z

Above refers to a case where user would like to attach XSK socket in
txonly mode at a queue id that does not have a corresponding Rx queue.
At this moment ice's XSK logic is tightly bound to act on a "queue pair",
e.g. both Tx and Rx queues at a given queue id are disabled/enabled and
both of them will get XSK pool assigned, which is broken for the presented
queue configuration. This results in the splat included at the bottom,
which is basically an OOB access to Rx ring array.

To fix this, allow using the ids only in scope of "combined" queues
reported by ethtool. However, logic should be rewritten to allow such
configurations later on, which would end up as a complete rewrite of the
control path, so let us go with this temporary fix.

[420160.558008] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000082
[420160.566359] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[420160.572657] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[420160.579002] PGD 0 P4D 0
[420160.582756] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
[420160.588396] CPU: 10 PID: 21232 Comm: xdpsock Tainted: G           OE     5.19.0-rc7+ #10
[420160.597893] Hardware name: Intel Corporation S2600WFT/S2600WFT, BIOS SE5C620.86B.02.01.0008.031920191559 03/19/2019
[420160.609894] RIP: 0010:ice_xsk_pool_setup+0x44/0x7d0 [ice]
[420160.616968] Code: f3 48 83 ec 40 48 8b 4f 20 48 8b 3f 65 48 8b 04 25 28 00 00 00 48 89 44 24 38 31 c0 48 8d 04 ed 00 00 00 00 48 01 c1 48 8b 11 <0f> b7 92 82 00 00 00 48 85 d2 0f 84 2d 75 00 00 48 8d 72 ff 48 85
[420160.639421] RSP: 0018:ffffc9002d2afd48 EFLAGS: 00010282
[420160.646650] RAX: 0000000000000050 RBX: ffff88811d8bdd00 RCX: ffff888112c14ff8
[420160.655893] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff88811d8bdd00 RDI: ffff888109861000
[420160.665166] RBP: 000000000000000a R08: 000000000000000a R09: 0000000000000000
[420160.674493] R10: 000000000000889f R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 000000000000000a
[420160.683833] R13: 000000000000000a R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff888117611828
[420160.693211] FS:  00007fa869fc1f80(0000) GS:ffff8897e0880000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[420160.703645] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[420160.711783] CR2: 0000000000000082 CR3: 00000001d076c001 CR4: 00000000007706e0
[420160.721399] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[420160.731045] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[420160.740707] PKRU: 55555554
[420160.745960] Call Trace:
[420160.750962]  <TASK>
[420160.755597]  ? kmalloc_large_node+0x79/0x90
[420160.762703]  ? __kmalloc_node+0x3f5/0x4b0
[420160.769341]  xp_assign_dev+0xfd/0x210
[420160.775661]  ? shmem_file_read_iter+0x29a/0x420
[420160.782896]  xsk_bind+0x152/0x490
[420160.788943]  __sys_bind+0xd0/0x100
[420160.795097]  ? exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x20/0x120
[420160.802801]  __x64_sys_bind+0x16/0x20
[420160.809298]  do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90
[420160.815741]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
[420160.823731] RIP: 0033:0x7fa86a0dd2fb
[420160.830264] Code: c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 8b 15 69 8b 0c 00 f7 d8 64 89 02 b8 ff ff ff ff eb bc 0f 1f 44 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa b8 31 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 3d 8b 0c 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48
[420160.855410] RSP: 002b:00007ffc1146f618 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000031
[420160.866366] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007fa86a0dd2fb
[420160.876957] RDX: 0000000000000010 RSI: 00007ffc1146f680 RDI: 0000000000000003
[420160.887604] RBP: 000055d7113a0520 R08: 00007fa868fb8000 R09: 0000000080000000
[420160.898293] R10: 0000000000008001 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 000055d7113a04e0
[420160.909038] R13: 000055d7113a0320 R14: 000000000000000a R15: 0000000000000000
[420160.919817]  </TASK>
[420160.925659] Modules linked in: ice(OE) af_packet binfmt_misc
---truncated---

Weakness: CWE-476 (NULL Pointer Dereference)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-50003?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-50003?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2022-50003 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50003 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-50003 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-50003 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 18 Jun 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-2022-50003 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-2022-50003/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-50003/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50003
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-50003
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-50003

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