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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-49450" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-02-26T02:13:00.379Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:00:06.588Z" 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-2022-49450" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49450.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49450" title: "rxrpc: Fix listen() setting the bar too high for the prealloc rings" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nrxrpc: Fix listen() setting the bar too high for the prealloc rings\n\nAF_RXRPC's listen() handler lets you set the backlog up to 32 (if you bump\nup the sysctl), but whilst the preallocation circular buffers have 32 slots\nin them, one of them has to be a dead slot because we're using CIRC_CNT().\n\nThis means that listen(rxrpc_sock, 32) will cause an oops when the socket\nis closed because rxrpc_service_prealloc_one() allocated one too many calls\nand rxrpc_discard_prealloc() won't then be able to get rid of them because\nit'll think the ring is empty. rxrpc_release_calls_on_socket() then tries\nto abort them, but oopses because call-\u003epeer isn't yet set.\n\nFix this by setting the maximum backlog to RXRPC_BACKLOG_MAX - 1 to match\nthe ring capacity.\n\n BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000086\n ...\n RIP: 0010:rxrpc_send_abort_packet+0x73/0x240 [rxrpc]\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n ? __wake_up_common_lock+0x7a/0x90\n ? rxrpc_notify_socket+0x8e/0x140 [rxrpc]\n ? rxrpc_abort_call+0x4c/0x60 [rxrpc]\n rxrpc_release_calls_on_socket+0x107/0x1a0 [rxrpc]\n rxrpc_release+0xc9/0x1c0 [rxrpc]\n __sock_release+0x37/0xa0\n sock_close+0x11/0x20\n __fput+0x89/0x240\n task_work_run+0x59/0x90\n do_exit+0x319/0xaa0" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"00e907127e6f86d0f9b122d9b4347a8aa09a8b61","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"61fb38cfbb1d54d3dafd0c25752f684b3cd00b32"},{"version":"00e907127e6f86d0f9b122d9b4347a8aa09a8b61","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"616f76498d5ddf26b997caf64a95cda3c8a55533"},{"version":"00e907127e6f86d0f9b122d9b4347a8aa09a8b61","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4a3a78b7918bdd723d8c7c9786522ca969bffcc4"},{"version":"00e907127e6f86d0f9b122d9b4347a8aa09a8b61","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"91b34bf0409f43bb60453bab23c5beadd726d022"},{"version":"00e907127e6f86d0f9b122d9b4347a8aa09a8b61","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5b4826657d36c218e9f08e8d3223b0edce3de88f"},{"version":"00e907127e6f86d0f9b122d9b4347a8aa09a8b61","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b3a9b227d5e7467b8518160ff034ea22bb9de573"},{"version":"00e907127e6f86d0f9b122d9b4347a8aa09a8b61","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"369de57492c4f1a42563c5a3bd365822ca3bfc79"},{"version":"00e907127e6f86d0f9b122d9b4347a8aa09a8b61","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e198f1930050e3115c80b67d9249f80f98a27c67"},{"version":"00e907127e6f86d0f9b122d9b4347a8aa09a8b61","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"88e22159750b0d55793302eeed8ee603f5c1a95c"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.9"},{"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":"5.10.121","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.46","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.17.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.17.*"},{"version":"5.18.3","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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