# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49703"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-02-26T02:24:22.700Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:05:06.751Z"
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-2022-49703"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49703.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49703"
title: "scsi: ibmvfc: Store vhost pointer during subcrq allocation"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: ibmvfc: Store vhost pointer during subcrq allocation\n\nCurrently the back pointer from a queue to the vhost adapter isn't set\nuntil after subcrq interrupt registration. The value is available when a\nqueue is first allocated and can/should be also set for primary and async\nqueues as well as subcrqs.\n\nThis fixes a crash observed during kexec/kdump on Power 9 with legacy XICS\ninterrupt controller where a pending subcrq interrupt from the previous\nkernel can be replayed immediately upon IRQ registration resulting in\ndereference of a garbage backpointer in ibmvfc_interrupt_scsi().\n\nKernel attempted to read user page (58) - exploit attempt? (uid: 0)\nBUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000058\nFaulting instruction address: 0xc008000003216a08\nOops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]\n...\nNIP [c008000003216a08] ibmvfc_interrupt_scsi+0x40/0xb0 [ibmvfc]\nLR [c0000000082079e8] __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x98/0x270\nCall Trace:\n[c000000047fa3d80] [c0000000123e6180] 0xc0000000123e6180 (unreliable)\n[c000000047fa3df0] [c0000000082079e8] __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x98/0x270\n[c000000047fa3ea0] [c000000008207d18] handle_irq_event+0x98/0x188\n[c000000047fa3ef0] [c00000000820f564] handle_fasteoi_irq+0xc4/0x310\n[c000000047fa3f40] [c000000008205c60] generic_handle_irq+0x50/0x80\n[c000000047fa3f60] [c000000008015c40] __do_irq+0x70/0x1a0\n[c000000047fa3f90] [c000000008016d7c] __do_IRQ+0x9c/0x130\n[c000000014622f60] [0000000020000000] 0x20000000\n[c000000014622ff0] [c000000008016e50] do_IRQ+0x40/0xa0\n[c000000014623020] [c000000008017044] replay_soft_interrupts+0x194/0x2f0\n[c000000014623210] [c0000000080172a8] arch_local_irq_restore+0x108/0x170\n[c000000014623240] [c000000008eb1008] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x58/0xb0\n[c000000014623270] [c00000000820b12c] __setup_irq+0x49c/0x9f0\n[c000000014623310] [c00000000820b7c0] request_threaded_irq+0x140/0x230\n[c000000014623380] [c008000003212a50] ibmvfc_register_scsi_channel+0x1e8/0x2f0 [ibmvfc]\n[c000000014623450] [c008000003213d1c] ibmvfc_init_sub_crqs+0xc4/0x1f0 [ibmvfc]\n[c0000000146234d0] [c0080000032145a8] ibmvfc_reset_crq+0x150/0x210 [ibmvfc]\n[c000000014623550] [c0080000032147c8] ibmvfc_init_crq+0x160/0x280 [ibmvfc]\n[c0000000146235f0] [c00800000321a9cc] ibmvfc_probe+0x2a4/0x530 [ibmvfc]"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3034ebe26389740bb6b4a463e05afb51dc93c336","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8540f66196ca35b7b5e902932571c18b9fde0cd1"},{"version":"3034ebe26389740bb6b4a463e05afb51dc93c336","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6d38e3b614ded59da8b95377a98df969a5a5627a"},{"version":"3034ebe26389740bb6b4a463e05afb51dc93c336","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"aeaadcde1a60138bceb65de3cdaeec78170b4459"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.12"},{"version":"5.15.51","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.18.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.18.*"},{"version":"5.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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