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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-49300" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-02-26T02:10:35.594Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T18:57:00.337Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:49.724Z" 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-2022-49300" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49300.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49300" title: "nbd: fix race between nbd_alloc_config() and module removal" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnbd: fix race between nbd_alloc_config() and module removal\n\nWhen nbd module is being removing, nbd_alloc_config() may be\ncalled concurrently by nbd_genl_connect(), although try_module_get()\nwill return false, but nbd_alloc_config() doesn't handle it.\n\nThe race may lead to the leak of nbd_config and its related\nresources (e.g, recv_workq) and oops in nbd_read_stat() due\nto the unload of nbd module as shown below:\n\n BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000040\n Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI\n CPU: 5 PID: 13840 Comm: kworker/u17:33 Not tainted 5.14.0+ #1\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)\n Workqueue: knbd16-recv recv_work [nbd]\n RIP: 0010:nbd_read_stat.cold+0x130/0x1a4 [nbd]\n Call Trace:\n recv_work+0x3b/0xb0 [nbd]\n process_one_work+0x1ed/0x390\n worker_thread+0x4a/0x3d0\n kthread+0x12a/0x150\n ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30\n\nFixing it by checking the return value of try_module_get()\nin nbd_alloc_config(). As nbd_alloc_config() may return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV),\nassign nbd-\u003econfig only when nbd_alloc_config() succeeds to ensure\nthe value of nbd-\u003econfig is binary (valid or NULL).\n\nAlso adding a debug message to check the reference counter\nof nbd_config during module removal." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"5ea8d10802ec4c153a6e21eebaf412e2abd29736","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"165cf2e0019fa6cedc75b456490c41494c34abb4"},{"version":"5ea8d10802ec4c153a6e21eebaf412e2abd29736","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2573f2375b64280be977431701ed5d33b75b9ad0"},{"version":"5ea8d10802ec4c153a6e21eebaf412e2abd29736","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8a7da4ced236ce6637fe70f14ca18e718d4bf9e9"},{"version":"5ea8d10802ec4c153a6e21eebaf412e2abd29736","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"122e4adaff2439f1cc18cc7e931980fa7560df5c"},{"version":"5ea8d10802ec4c153a6e21eebaf412e2abd29736","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"71c142f910da44421213ade601bcbd23ceae19fa"},{"version":"5ea8d10802ec4c153a6e21eebaf412e2abd29736","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2888fa41985f93ed0a6837cfbb06bcbfd7fa2314"},{"version":"5ea8d10802ec4c153a6e21eebaf412e2abd29736","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d09525720dd5201756f698bee1076de9aefd4602"},{"version":"5ea8d10802ec4c153a6e21eebaf412e2abd29736","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c55b2b983b0fa012942c3eb16384b2b722caa810"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.12"},{"version":"4.14.283","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.247","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.198","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.122","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.47","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.17.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.17.*"},{"version":"5.18.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.18.*"},{"version":"5.19","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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