CVE-2022-49820

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.18-6.0.9 - Denial of Service via MCTP I2C Flow Release Count Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mctp i2c: don't count unused / invalid keys for flow release We're currently hitting the WARN_ON in mctp_i2c_flow_release: if (midev->release_count > midev->i2c_lock_count) { WARN_ONCE(1, "release count overflow"); This may be hit if we expire a flow before sending the first packet it contains - as we will not be pairing the increment of release_count (performed on flow release) with the i2c lock operation (only performed on actual TX). To fix this, only release a flow if we've encountered it previously (ie, dev_flow_state does not indicate NEW), as we will mark the flow as ACTIVE at the same time as accounting for the i2c lock operation. We also need to add an INVALID flow state, to indicate when we've done the release.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0016
EPSS Percentile 5.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (9)
linux/Kernel 5.18.0 - 6.0.10linux
Linux/Linux < 5.18
Linux/Linux 5.18
Linux/Linux 6.0.10 - 6.0.*
Linux/Linux 6.1
Linux/Linux f5b8abf9fc3dacd7529d363e26fe8230935d65f8 - 9cbd48d5fa14e4c65f8580de16686077f7cea02b
Linux/Linux f5b8abf9fc3dacd7529d363e26fe8230935d65f8 - a5915a9a3ab4067ef8996a57738d156eabeb3a12
linux/linux_kernel 6.1 rc1 (5 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 5.18 - 6.0.10
Published May 01, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026