{"id":"CVE-2022-49838","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2022-49838","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T21:09:33.407Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sctp: clear out_curr if all frag chunks of current msg are pruned A crash was reported by Zhen Chen: list_del corruption, ffffa035ddf01c18->next is NULL WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 250682 at…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsctp: clear out_curr if all frag chunks of current msg are pruned\n\nA crash was reported by Zhen Chen:\n\n  list_del corruption, ffffa035ddf01c18->next is NULL\n  WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 250682 at lib/list_debug.c:49 __list_del_entry_valid+0x59/0xe0\n  RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid+0x59/0xe0\n  Call Trace:\n   sctp_sched_dequeue_common+0x17/0x70 [sctp]\n   sctp_sched_fcfs_dequeue+0x37/0x50 [sctp]\n   sctp_outq_flush_data+0x85/0x360 [sctp]\n   sctp_outq_uncork+0x77/0xa0 [sctp]\n   sctp_cmd_interpreter.constprop.0+0x164/0x1450 [sctp]\n   sctp_side_effects+0x37/0xe0 [sctp]\n   sctp_do_sm+0xd0/0x230 [sctp]\n   sctp_primitive_SEND+0x2f/0x40 [sctp]\n   sctp_sendmsg_to_asoc+0x3fa/0x5c0 [sctp]\n   sctp_sendmsg+0x3d5/0x440 [sctp]\n   sock_sendmsg+0x5b/0x70\n\nand in sctp_sched_fcfs_dequeue() it dequeued a chunk from stream\nout_curr outq while this outq was empty.\n\nNormally stream->out_curr must be set to NULL once all frag chunks of\ncurrent msg are dequeued, as we can see in sctp_sched_dequeue_done().\nHowever, in sctp_prsctp_prune_unsent() as it is not a proper dequeue,\nsctp_sched_dequeue_done() is not called to do this.\n\nThis patch is to fix it by simply setting out_curr to NULL when the\nlast frag chunk of current msg is dequeued from out_curr stream in\nsctp_prsctp_prune_unsent().","published":"2025-05-01T15:16:07.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T05:19:16.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00215,"percentile":0.11811,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.21%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ea600b598dd3e061854dd4dd5b4c815397dfcea","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2f201ae14ae0f91dbf1cffea7bb1e29e81d4d108","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3eff34e01062ec08fbb45ce2baaaa644550be821","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e27458b18b35caee4b27b37a4a9c503b93cae5cc","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49838","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}