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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-49904" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-05-01T14:10:48.998Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:23:11.729Z" 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-2022-49904" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49904.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49904" title: "net, neigh: Fix null-ptr-deref in neigh_table_clear()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet, neigh: Fix null-ptr-deref in neigh_table_clear()\n\nWhen IPv6 module gets initialized but hits an error in the middle,\nkenel panic with:\n\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000598-0x000000000000059f]\nCPU: 1 PID: 361 Comm: insmod\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)\nRIP: 0010:__neigh_ifdown.isra.0+0x24b/0x370\nRSP: 0018:ffff888012677908 EFLAGS: 00000202\n...\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n neigh_table_clear+0x94/0x2d0\n ndisc_cleanup+0x27/0x40 [ipv6]\n inet6_init+0x21c/0x2cb [ipv6]\n do_one_initcall+0xd3/0x4d0\n do_init_module+0x1ae/0x670\n...\nKernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception\n\nWhen ipv6 initialization fails, it will try to cleanup and calls:\n\nneigh_table_clear()\n neigh_ifdown(tbl, NULL)\n pneigh_queue_purge(&tbl-\u003eproxy_queue, dev_net(dev == NULL))\n # dev_net(NULL) triggers null-ptr-deref.\n\nFix it by passing NULL to pneigh_queue_purge() in neigh_ifdown() if dev\nis NULL, to make kernel not panic immediately." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"9bbaed571c4bf1b62ac8703cb359dc090efc3455","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0d38b4ca6679e72860ff8730e79bb99d0e9fa3b0"},{"version":"05fdce1ae744dee43c9181fd063c9c0db4f777f2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b736592de2aa53aee2d48d6b129bc0c892007bbe"},{"version":"51be9dd391fd25872b95708a0250f2f7722d2d8e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b49f6b2f21f543d4dc88fb7b1ec2adccb822f27c"},{"version":"c35adafe42bd6c3bf2aca0a3f523dabc38fc23c8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1c89642e7f2b7ecc9635610653f5c2f0276c0051"},{"version":"db6fa03d80ab076238fc806c9925d1f8b9639d1b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2b45d6d0c41cb9593868e476681efb1aae5078a1"},{"version":"66ba215cb51323e4e55e38fd5f250e0fae0cbc94","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a99a8ec4c62180c889482a2ff6465033e0743458"},{"version":"66ba215cb51323e4e55e38fd5f250e0fae0cbc94","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f8017317cb0b279b8ab98b0f3901a2e0ac880dad"},{"version":"2dd5ed474115150d8175825bc3b56c6385c3a83b","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"4.14.292","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.14.299"},{"version":"4.19.257","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.19.265"},{"version":"5.4.212","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.4.224"},{"version":"5.10.141","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10.154"},{"version":"5.15.65","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.78"},{"version":"5.19.7","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.20"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.0"},{"version":"4.14.299","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.265","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.224","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.154","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.78","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.0.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1","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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