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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2022-49048

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: fix panic when forwarding a pkt with no in6 dev kongweibin reported a kernel panic in ip6_forward() when input interface has no in6 dev associated.

MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 0.69%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.69%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: fix panic when forwarding a pkt with no in6 dev kongweibin reported a kernel panic in ip6_forward() when input interface has no in6 dev associated. The following tc commands were used to reproduce this panic: tc qdisc del dev vxlan100 root tc qdisc add dev vxlan100 root netem corrupt 5%

CVSS 3.1
5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.69% probability · 53th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Affected
linux/linux kernel
Source
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
EPSS trend
0%3%5%26 October 2026: 0.69%26 October 202626 October 2026

EPSS 0.7% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.