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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-49372" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-02-26T02:11:14.119Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T18:58:24.878Z" 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-2022-49372" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49372.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49372" title: "tcp: tcp_rtx_synack() can be called from process context" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntcp: tcp_rtx_synack() can be called from process context\n\nLaurent reported the enclosed report [1]\n\nThis bug triggers with following coditions:\n\n0) Kernel built with CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT=y\n\n1) A new passive FastOpen TCP socket is created.\n This FO socket waits for an ACK coming from client to be a complete\n ESTABLISHED one.\n2) A socket operation on this socket goes through lock_sock()\n release_sock() dance.\n3) While the socket is owned by the user in step 2),\n a retransmit of the SYN is received and stored in socket backlog.\n4) At release_sock() time, the socket backlog is processed while\n in process context.\n5) A SYNACK packet is cooked in response of the SYN retransmit.\n6) -\u003e tcp_rtx_synack() is called in process context.\n\nBefore blamed commit, tcp_rtx_synack() was always called from BH handler,\nfrom a timer handler.\n\nFix this by using TCP_INC_STATS() & NET_INC_STATS()\nwhich do not assume caller is in non preemptible context.\n\n[1]\nBUG: using __this_cpu_add() in preemptible [00000000] code: epollpep/2180\ncaller is tcp_rtx_synack.part.0+0x36/0xc0\nCPU: 10 PID: 2180 Comm: epollpep Tainted: G OE 5.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 #1 Debian 5.16.12-1~bpo11+1\nHardware name: Supermicro SYS-5039MC-H8TRF/X11SCD-F, BIOS 1.7 11/23/2021\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n dump_stack_lvl+0x48/0x5e\n check_preemption_disabled+0xde/0xe0\n tcp_rtx_synack.part.0+0x36/0xc0\n tcp_rtx_synack+0x8d/0xa0\n ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x2e0/0x3e0\n ? apparmor_file_alloc_security+0x3b/0x1f0\n inet_rtx_syn_ack+0x16/0x30\n tcp_check_req+0x367/0x610\n tcp_rcv_state_process+0x91/0xf60\n ? get_nohz_timer_target+0x18/0x1a0\n ? lock_timer_base+0x61/0x80\n ? preempt_count_add+0x68/0xa0\n tcp_v4_do_rcv+0xbd/0x270\n __release_sock+0x6d/0xb0\n release_sock+0x2b/0x90\n sock_setsockopt+0x138/0x1140\n ? __sys_getsockname+0x7e/0xc0\n ? aa_sk_perm+0x3e/0x1a0\n __sys_setsockopt+0x198/0x1e0\n __x64_sys_setsockopt+0x21/0x30\n do_syscall_64+0x38/0xc0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"168a8f58059a22feb9e9a2dcc1b8053dbbbc12ef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3db889f883e65bbd3b1401279bfc1e9ed255c481"},{"version":"168a8f58059a22feb9e9a2dcc1b8053dbbbc12ef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c348b0f8d035fc4bdc040796889beec7218bd1b8"},{"version":"168a8f58059a22feb9e9a2dcc1b8053dbbbc12ef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"58bd38cbc961fd799842b7be8c5222310f04b908"},{"version":"168a8f58059a22feb9e9a2dcc1b8053dbbbc12ef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d05c2fdf8e10528bb6751bd95243e862d5402a9b"},{"version":"168a8f58059a22feb9e9a2dcc1b8053dbbbc12ef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0a0f7f84148445c9f02f226928803a870139d820"},{"version":"168a8f58059a22feb9e9a2dcc1b8053dbbbc12ef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"88cd232146207ff1d41dededed5e77c0d4438113"},{"version":"168a8f58059a22feb9e9a2dcc1b8053dbbbc12ef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bdc28a8fb43cc476e33b11519235adb816ce00e8"},{"version":"168a8f58059a22feb9e9a2dcc1b8053dbbbc12ef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d8e1bc6029acac796293310aacef7b7336f35b6a"},{"version":"168a8f58059a22feb9e9a2dcc1b8053dbbbc12ef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0a375c822497ed6ad6b5da0792a12a6f1af10c0b"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.7"},{"version":"4.9.318","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.9.*"},{"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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