# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-48914"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-08-22T01:32:07.803Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T18:49:36.523Z"
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-2022-48914"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-48914.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48914"
title: "xen/netfront: destroy queues before real_num_tx_queues is zeroed"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxen/netfront: destroy queues before real_num_tx_queues is zeroed\n\nxennet_destroy_queues() relies on info-\u003enetdev-\u003ereal_num_tx_queues to\ndelete queues. Since d7dac083414eb5bb99a6d2ed53dc2c1b405224e5\n(\"net-sysfs: update the queue counts in the unregistration path\"),\nunregister_netdev() indirectly sets real_num_tx_queues to 0. Those two\nfacts together means, that xennet_destroy_queues() called from\nxennet_remove() cannot do its job, because it's called after\nunregister_netdev(). This results in kfree-ing queues that are still\nlinked in napi, which ultimately crashes:\n\n    BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000\n    #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode\n    #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page\n    PGD 0 P4D 0\n    Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI\n    CPU: 1 PID: 52 Comm: xenwatch Tainted: G        W         5.16.10-1.32.fc32.qubes.x86_64+ #226\n    RIP: 0010:free_netdev+0xa3/0x1a0\n    Code: ff 48 89 df e8 2e e9 00 00 48 8b 43 50 48 8b 08 48 8d b8 a0 fe ff ff 48 8d a9 a0 fe ff ff 49 39 c4 75 26 eb 47 e8 ed c1 66 ff \u003c48\u003e 8b 85 60 01 00 00 48 8d 95 60 01 00 00 48 89 ef 48 2d 60 01 00\n    RSP: 0000:ffffc90000bcfd00 EFLAGS: 00010286\n    RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88800edad000 RCX: 0000000000000000\n    RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffc90000bcfc30 RDI: 00000000ffffffff\n    RBP: fffffffffffffea0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000\n    R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff88800edad050\n    R13: ffff8880065f8f88 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff8880066c6680\n    FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880f3300000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n    CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n    CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000000e998c006 CR4: 00000000003706e0\n    Call Trace:\n     \u003cTASK\u003e\n     xennet_remove+0x13d/0x300 [xen_netfront]\n     xenbus_dev_remove+0x6d/0xf0\n     __device_release_driver+0x17a/0x240\n     device_release_driver+0x24/0x30\n     bus_remove_device+0xd8/0x140\n     device_del+0x18b/0x410\n     ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x16/0x30\n     ? klist_iter_exit+0x14/0x20\n     ? xenbus_dev_request_and_reply+0x80/0x80\n     device_unregister+0x13/0x60\n     xenbus_dev_changed+0x18e/0x1f0\n     xenwatch_thread+0xc0/0x1a0\n     ? do_wait_intr_irq+0xa0/0xa0\n     kthread+0x16b/0x190\n     ? set_kthread_struct+0x40/0x40\n     ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30\n     \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nFix this by calling xennet_destroy_queues() from xennet_uninit(),\nwhen real_num_tx_queues is still available. This ensures that queues are\ndestroyed when real_num_tx_queues is set to 0, regardless of how\nunregister_netdev() was called.\n\nOriginally reported at\nhttps://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/7257"
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