Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-49584

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - ixgbe: Add locking to prevent panic when setting sriovnumvfs to zero It is possible to disable VFs while the PF driver is processing requests from the VF driver...

CVE-2022-49584

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ixgbe: Add locking to prevent panic when setting sriovnumvfs to zero It is possible to disable VFs while the PF driver is processing requests from the VF driver. This can result in a panic. BUG: unable to handle kernel paging...

CVE-2022-49584

CVE-2022-49584 is a Linux kernel issue in the ixgbe driver where disabling SR-IOV (setting sriov_numvfs to zero) can race with the PF driver, potentially causing a kernel panic. The root cause is a lack of locking during the disable path, allowing VF mailbox communication to proceed concurrently....

CVE-2022-49584 ixgbe: Add locking to prevent panic when setting sriov_numvfs to zero

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ixgbe: Add locking to prevent panic when setting sriovnumvfs to zero It is possible to disable VFs while the PF driver is processing requests from the VF driver. This can result in a panic. BUG: unable to handle kernel paging...