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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-48744" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-06-20T11:13:27.979Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:52:06.733Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:45.230Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-48744" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-48744.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48744" title: "net/mlx5e: Avoid field-overflowing memcpy()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/mlx5e: Avoid field-overflowing memcpy()\n\nIn preparation for FORTIFY_SOURCE performing compile-time and run-time\nfield bounds checking for memcpy(), memmove(), and memset(), avoid\nintentionally writing across neighboring fields.\n\nUse flexible arrays instead of zero-element arrays (which look like they\nare always overflowing) and split the cross-field memcpy() into two halves\nthat can be appropriately bounds-checked by the compiler.\n\nWe were doing:\n\n\t#define ETH_HLEN 14\n\t#define VLAN_HLEN 4\n\t...\n\t#define MLX5E_XDP_MIN_INLINE (ETH_HLEN + VLAN_HLEN)\n\t...\n struct mlx5e_tx_wqe *wqe = mlx5_wq_cyc_get_wqe(wq, pi);\n\t...\n struct mlx5_wqe_eth_seg *eseg = &wqe-\u003eeth;\n struct mlx5_wqe_data_seg *dseg = wqe-\u003edata;\n\t...\n\tmemcpy(eseg-\u003einline_hdr.start, xdptxd-\u003edata, MLX5E_XDP_MIN_INLINE);\n\ntarget is wqe-\u003eeth.inline_hdr.start (which the compiler sees as being\n2 bytes in size), but copying 18, intending to write across start\n(really vlan_tci, 2 bytes). The remaining 16 bytes get written into\nwqe-\u003edata[0], covering byte_count (4 bytes), lkey (4 bytes), and addr\n(8 bytes).\n\nstruct mlx5e_tx_wqe {\n struct mlx5_wqe_ctrl_seg ctrl; /* 0 16 */\n struct mlx5_wqe_eth_seg eth; /* 16 16 */\n struct mlx5_wqe_data_seg data[]; /* 32 0 */\n\n /* size: 32, cachelines: 1, members: 3 */\n /* last cacheline: 32 bytes */\n};\n\nstruct mlx5_wqe_eth_seg {\n u8 swp_outer_l4_offset; /* 0 1 */\n u8 swp_outer_l3_offset; /* 1 1 */\n u8 swp_inner_l4_offset; /* 2 1 */\n u8 swp_inner_l3_offset; /* 3 1 */\n u8 cs_flags; /* 4 1 */\n u8 swp_flags; /* 5 1 */\n __be16 mss; /* 6 2 */\n __be32 flow_table_metadata; /* 8 4 */\n union {\n struct {\n __be16 sz; /* 12 2 */\n u8 start[2]; /* 14 2 */\n } inline_hdr; /* 12 4 */\n struct {\n __be16 type; /* 12 2 */\n __be16 vlan_tci; /* 14 2 */\n } insert; /* 12 4 */\n __be32 trailer; /* 12 4 */\n }; /* 12 4 */\n\n /* size: 16, cachelines: 1, members: 9 */\n /* last cacheline: 16 bytes */\n};\n\nstruct mlx5_wqe_data_seg {\n __be32 byte_count; /* 0 4 */\n __be32 lkey; /* 4 4 */\n __be64 addr; /* 8 8 */\n\n /* size: 16, cachelines: 1, members: 3 */\n /* last cacheline: 16 bytes */\n};\n\nSo, split the memcpy() so the compiler can reason about the buffer\nsizes.\n\n\"pahole\" shows no size nor member offset changes to struct mlx5e_tx_wqe\nnor struct mlx5e_umr_wqe. \"objdump -d\" shows no meaningful object\ncode changes (i.e. only source line number induced differences and\noptimizations)." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b5503b994ed5ed8dbfe821317e7b5b38acb065c5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"49bcbe531f79fc35bb10020f7695f9f01e4f0ca8"},{"version":"b5503b994ed5ed8dbfe821317e7b5b38acb065c5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8fbdf8c8b8ab82beab882175157650452c46493e"},{"version":"b5503b994ed5ed8dbfe821317e7b5b38acb065c5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ad5185735f7dab342fdd0dd41044da4c9ccfef67"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.9"},{"version":"5.10.248","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.16.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.16.*"},{"version":"5.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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