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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2022-49558 json

netfilter: nf_tables: double hook unregistration in netns path

published 2025-02-26 20 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-54674

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 20%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: nf_tables: double hook unregistration in netns path

__nft_release_hooks() is called from pre_netns exit path which unregisters the hooks, then the NETDEV_UNREGISTER event is triggered which unregisters the hooks again.

[ 565.221461] WARNING: CPU: 18 PID: 193 at net/netfilter/core.c:495 __nf_unregister_net_hook+0x247/0x270 [...] [ 565.246890] CPU: 18 PID: 193 Comm: kworker/u64:1 Tainted: G E 5.18.0-rc7+ #27 [ 565.253682] Workqueue: netns cleanup_net [ 565.257059] RIP: 0010:__nf_unregister_net_hook+0x247/0x270 [...] [ 565.297120] Call Trace: [ 565.300900] <TASK> [ 565.304683] nf_tables_flowtable_event+0x16a/0x220 [nf_tables] [ 565.308518] raw_notifier_call_chain+0x63/0x80 [ 565.312386] unregister_netdevice_many+0x54f/0xb50

Unregister and destroy netdev hook from netns pre_exit via kfree_rcu so the NETDEV_UNREGISTER path see unregistered hooks.

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 5.4.262, 5.10.198, 5.15.45, 5.17.13, 5.18.2, 5.19
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.18.2-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49558

  • linux Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-173.191
  • linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-47.51
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1120.130
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1019.23
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1124.133
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1017.23
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1015.18
  • linux-ibm Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1067.72

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49558

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-49558 updated cvss 5.5

kernel: netfilter: nf_tables: double hook unregistration in netns path

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.28% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 20% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

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