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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-50486" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-10-04T15:16:43.791Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:20:25.437Z" 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-2022-50486" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50486.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50486" title: "net: ethernet: ti: Fix return type of netcp_ndo_start_xmit()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: ethernet: ti: Fix return type of netcp_ndo_start_xmit()\n\nWith clang's kernel control flow integrity (kCFI, CONFIG_CFI_CLANG),\nindirect call targets are validated against the expected function\npointer prototype to make sure the call target is valid to help mitigate\nROP attacks. If they are not identical, there is a failure at run time,\nwhich manifests as either a kernel panic or thread getting killed. A\nproposed warning in clang aims to catch these at compile time, which\nreveals:\n\n drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcp_core.c:1944:21: error: incompatible function pointer types initializing 'netdev_tx_t (*)(struct sk_buff *, struct net_device *)' (aka 'enum netdev_tx (*)(struct sk_buff *, struct net_device *)') with an expression of type 'int (struct sk_buff *, struct net_device *)' [-Werror,-Wincompatible-function-pointer-types-strict]\n .ndo_start_xmit = netcp_ndo_start_xmit,\n ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\n 1 error generated.\n\n-\u003endo_start_xmit() in 'struct net_device_ops' expects a return type of\n'netdev_tx_t', not 'int'. Adjust the return type of\nnetcp_ndo_start_xmit() to match the prototype's to resolve the warning\nand CFI failure." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"84640e27f23041d474c31d3362c3e2185ad68ec2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a447479ea2cf35603b5739ea947885024b901222"},{"version":"84640e27f23041d474c31d3362c3e2185ad68ec2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"17bb9bdf701f3e811a9f4820b08b9538ade2641c"},{"version":"84640e27f23041d474c31d3362c3e2185ad68ec2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d837d74eae077cc3ef9e191ba8535b5f602d4673"},{"version":"84640e27f23041d474c31d3362c3e2185ad68ec2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dbe1a6b930ae9647e8ce0b684c903ac67d4398eb"},{"version":"84640e27f23041d474c31d3362c3e2185ad68ec2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5b0b6553bf4ad3a435a57e02c68d6075f384e1be"},{"version":"84640e27f23041d474c31d3362c3e2185ad68ec2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a413ebb6049edd881c6427cfa25a7efddd6a4f74"},{"version":"84640e27f23041d474c31d3362c3e2185ad68ec2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"765636e58ba505cfe4927eda7ee83791b1c6402a"},{"version":"84640e27f23041d474c31d3362c3e2185ad68ec2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1e4953b826e12b31995564a459dbd4e9e4604a35"},{"version":"84640e27f23041d474c31d3362c3e2185ad68ec2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"63fe6ff674a96cfcfc0fa8df1051a27aa31c70b4"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.0"},{"version":"4.9.337","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.9.*"},{"version":"4.14.303","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.270","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.229","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.163","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.86","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.0.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2","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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