CVE-2022-50054 (Moderate severity, published 2025-06-17)
CVSS score: 5.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CWE: CWE-476
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

iavf: Fix NULL pointer dereference in iavf_get_link_ksettings

Fix possible NULL pointer dereference, due to freeing of adapter->vf_res
in iavf_init_get_resources. Previous commit introduced a regression,
where receiving IAVF_ERR_ADMIN_QUEUE_NO_WORK from iavf_get_vf_config
would free adapter->vf_res. However, netdev is still registered, so
ethtool_ops can be called. Calling iavf_get_link_ksettings with no vf_res,
will result with:
[ 9385.242676] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008
[ 9385.242683] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 9385.242686] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 9385.242690] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ 9385.242696] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC PTI
[ 9385.242701] CPU: 6 PID: 3217 Comm: pmdalinux Kdump: loaded Tainted: G S          E     5.18.0-04958-ga54ce3703613-dirty #1
[ 9385.242708] Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R730/0WCJNT, BIOS 2.11.0 11/02/2019
[ 9385.242710] RIP: 0010:iavf_get_link_ksettings+0x29/0xd0 [iavf]
[ 9385.242745] Code: 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 b8 01 ef ff ff 48 c7 46 30 00 00 00 00 48 c7 46 38 00 00 00 00 c6 46 0b 00 66 89 46 08 48 8b 87 68 0e 00 00 <f6> 40 08 80 75 50 8b 87 5c 0e 00 00 83 f8 08 74 7a 76 1d 83 f8 20
[ 9385.242749] RSP: 0018:ffffc0560ec7fbd0 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 9385.242755] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffc0560ec7fc08 RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 9385.242759] RDX: ffffffffc0ad4550 RSI: ffffc0560ec7fc08 RDI: ffffa0fc66674000
[ 9385.242762] RBP: 00007ffd1fb2bf50 R08: b6a2d54b892363ee R09: ffffa101dc14fb00
[ 9385.242765] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000004 R12: ffffa0fc66674000
[ 9385.242768] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffa0fc66674000 R15: 00000000ffffffa1
[ 9385.242771] FS:  00007f93711a2980(0000) GS:ffffa0fad72c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 9385.242775] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 9385.242778] CR2: 0000000000000008 CR3: 0000000a8e61c003 CR4: 00000000003706e0
[ 9385.242781] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[ 9385.242784] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[ 9385.242787] Call Trace:
[ 9385.242791]  <TASK>
[ 9385.242793]  ethtool_get_settings+0x71/0x1a0
[ 9385.242814]  __dev_ethtool+0x426/0x2f40
[ 9385.242823]  ? slab_post_alloc_hook+0x4f/0x280
[ 9385.242836]  ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x15d/0x2f0
[ 9385.242841]  ? dev_ethtool+0x59/0x170
[ 9385.242848]  dev_ethtool+0xa7/0x170
[ 9385.242856]  dev_ioctl+0xc3/0x520
[ 9385.242866]  sock_do_ioctl+0xa0/0xe0
[ 9385.242877]  sock_ioctl+0x22f/0x320
[ 9385.242885]  __x64_sys_ioctl+0x84/0xc0
[ 9385.242896]  do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x80
[ 9385.242904]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
[ 9385.242918] RIP: 0033:0x7f93702396db
[ 9385.242923] Code: 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d ad 57 38 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa b8 10 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 7d 57 38 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48
[ 9385.242927] RSP: 002b:00007ffd1fb2bf18 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
[ 9385.242932] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000055671b1d2fe0 RCX: 00007f93702396db
[ 9385.242935] RDX: 00007ffd1fb2bf20 RSI: 0000000000008946 RDI: 0000000000000007
[ 9385.242937] RBP: 00007ffd1fb2bf20 R08: 0000000000000003 R09: 0030763066307330
[ 9385.242940] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffd1fb2bf80
[ 9385.242942] R13: 0000000000000007 R14: 0000556719f6de90 R15: 00007ffd1fb2c1b0
[ 9385.242948]  </TASK>
[ 9385.242949] Modules linked in: iavf(E) xt_CHECKSUM xt_MASQUERADE xt_conntrack ipt_REJECT nft_compat nf_nat_tftp nft_objref nf_conntrack_tftp bridge stp llc nft_fib_inet nft_fib_ipv4 nft_fib_ipv6 nft_fib nft_reject_inet nf_reject_ipv4 nf_reject_ipv6 nft_reject nft_ct nft_chain_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 ip_set nf_tables rfkill nfnetlink vfat fat irdma ib_uverbs ib_core intel_rapl_msr intel_rapl_common sb_edac x86_pkg_temp_thermal intel_powerclamp coretem
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Statement: This issue has been fixed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6, 8.7, 9.1 and 9.2 via RHSA-2022:7110 [1], RHSA-2022:7683 [2], RHSA-2023:0334 [3] and RHSA-2023:2458 [4], respectively.

[1]. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7110

[2]. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7683

[3]. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0334

[4]. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2458
Mitigation: Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.