CVE-2022-50498

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: eth: alx: take rtnllock on resume Zbynek reports that alx trips an rtnl assertion on resume: RTNL: assertion failed at net/core/dev.c 2891 RIP: 0010:netifsetrealnumtxqueues+0x1ac/0x1c0 Call Trace: alxopen+0x230/0x570 alx...

CVE-2022-50498

CVE-2022-50498 : In the Linux kernel, the alx ethernet driver vulnerability stems from not taking the rtnl_lock during resume, allowing an rtnl assertion to trip in net/core/dev.c when reopening on resume. The issue is localized to the alx driver’s suspend/resume path and is triggered during devi...