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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2022-50445 json

xfrm: Reinject transport-mode packets through workqueue

published 2025-10-01 13 mo ago modified 2026-11-05 3 d ago also EUVD-2025-32841

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 5%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

xfrm: Reinject transport-mode packets through workqueue

The following warning is displayed when the tcp6-multi-diffip11 stress test case of the LTP test suite is tested:

watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [ns-tcpserver:48198] CPU: 0 PID: 48198 Comm: ns-tcpserver Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.0.0-rc6+ #39 Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015 pstate: 80400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) pc : des3_ede_encrypt+0x27c/0x460 [libdes] lr : 0x3f sp : ffff80000ceaa1b0 x29: ffff80000ceaa1b0 x28: ffff0000df056100 x27: ffff0000e51e5280 x26: ffff80004df75030 x25: ffff0000e51e4600 x24: 000000000000003b x23: 0000000000802080 x22: 000000000000003d x21: 0000000000000038 x20: 0000000080000020 x19: 000000000000000a x18: 0000000000000033 x17: ffff0000e51e4780 x16: ffff80004e2d1448 x15: ffff80004e2d1248 x14: ffff0000e51e4680 x13: ffff80004e2d1348 x12: ffff80004e2d1548 x11: ffff80004e2d1848 x10: ffff80004e2d1648 x9 : ffff80004e2d1748 x8 : ffff80004e2d1948 x7 : 000000000bcaf83d x6 : 000000000000001b x5 : ffff80004e2d1048 x4 : 00000000761bf3bf x3 : 000000007f1dd0a3 x2 : ffff0000e51e4780 x1 : ffff0000e3b9a2f8 x0 : 00000000db44e872 Call trace: des3_ede_encrypt+0x27c/0x460 [libdes] crypto_des3_ede_encrypt+0x1c/0x30 [des_generic] crypto_cbc_encrypt+0x148/0x190 crypto_skcipher_encrypt+0x2c/0x40 crypto_authenc_encrypt+0xc8/0xfc [authenc] crypto_aead_encrypt+0x2c/0x40 echainiv_encrypt+0x144/0x1a0 [echainiv] crypto_aead_encrypt+0x2c/0x40 esp6_output_tail+0x1c8/0x5d0 [esp6] esp6_output+0x120/0x278 [esp6] xfrm_output_one+0x458/0x4ec xfrm_output_resume+0x6c/0x1f0 xfrm_output+0xac/0x4ac __xfrm6_output+0x130/0x270 xfrm6_output+0x60/0xec ip6_xmit+0x2ec/0x5bc inet6_csk_xmit+0xbc/0x10c __tcp_transmit_skb+0x460/0x8c0 tcp_write_xmit+0x348/0x890 __tcp_push_pending_frames+0x44/0x110 tcp_rcv_established+0x3c8/0x720 tcp_v6_do_rcv+0xdc/0x4a0 tcp_v6_rcv+0xc24/0xcb0 ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu+0xf0/0x574 ip6_input_finish+0x48/0x7c ip6_input+0x48/0xc0 ip6_rcv_finish+0x80/0x9c xfrm_trans_reinject+0xb0/0xf4 tasklet_action_common.constprop.0+0xf8/0x134 tasklet_action+0x30/0x3c __do_softirq+0x128/0x368 do_softirq+0xb4/0xc0 __local_bh_enable_ip+0xb0/0xb4 put_cpu_fpsimd_context+0x40/0x70 kernel_neon_end+0x20/0x40 sha1_base_do_update.constprop.0.isra.0+0x11c/0x140 [sha1_ce] sha1_ce_finup+0x94/0x110 [sha1_ce] crypto_shash_finup+0x34/0xc0 hmac_finup+0x48/0xe0 crypto_shash_finup+0x34/0xc0 shash_digest_unaligned+0x74/0x90 crypto_shash_digest+0x4c/0x9c shash_ahash_digest+0xc8/0xf0 shash_async_digest+0x28/0x34 crypto_ahash_digest+0x48/0xcc crypto_authenc_genicv+0x88/0xcc [authenc] crypto_authenc_encrypt+0xd8/0xfc [authenc] crypto_aead_encrypt+0x2c/0x40 echainiv_encrypt+0x144/0x1a0 [echainiv] crypto_aead_encrypt+0x2c/0x40 esp6_output_tail+0x1c8/0x5d0 [esp6] esp6_output+0x120/0x278 [esp6] xfrm_output_one+0x458/0x4ec xfrm_output_resume+0x6c/0x1f0 xfrm_output+0xac/0x4ac __xfrm6_output+0x130/0x270 xfrm6_output+0x60/0xec ip6_xmit+0x2ec/0x5bc inet6_csk_xmit+0xbc/0x10c __tcp_transmit_skb+0x460/0x8c0 tcp_write_xmit+0x348/0x890 __tcp_push_pending_frames+0x44/0x110 tcp_push+0xb4/0x14c tcp_sendmsg_locked+0x71c/0xb64 tcp_sendmsg+0x40/0x6c inet6_sendmsg+0x4c/0x80 sock_sendmsg+0x5c/0x6c __sys_sendto+0x128/0x15c __arm64_sys_sendto+0x30/0x40 invoke_syscall+0x50/0x120 el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x170/0x194 do_el0_svc+0x38/0x4c el0_svc+0x28/0xe0 el0t_64_sync_handler+0xbc/0x13c el0t_64_sync+0x180/0x184

Get softirq info by bcc tool: ./softirqs -NT 10 Tracing soft irq event time... Hit Ctrl-C to end.

15:34:34 SOFTIRQ TOTAL_nsecs block 158990 timer 20030920 sched 46577080 net_rx 676746820 tasklet 9906067650

15:34:45 SOFTIRQ TOTAL_nsecs block 86100 sched 38849790 net_rx ---truncated---

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 3.3, 3.17, 4.15, 5.15.75, 5.19.17, 6.0.3, 6.1
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 6.0.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50445

  • linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-60.66
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1030.34
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1029.36
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1027.32
  • linux-ibm Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1025.28
  • linux-kvm Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1028.33
  • linux-azure Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1033.40
  • linux-gkeop Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1015.19

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50445

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

  • kernel RHEL 9 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2
  • perf RHEL 9 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2
  • rtla RHEL 9 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2
  • bpftool RHEL 9 7.0.0-284.11.1.el9_2
  • kernel-64k RHEL 9 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2
  • kernel-core RHEL 9 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2
  • kernel-tools RHEL 9 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2
  • python3-perf RHEL 9 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2

red hat advisories RHSA-2023:2458

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-2022-50445 updated cvss 5.5

kernel: xfrm: Reinject transport-mode packets through workqueue

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • 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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • 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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
3 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 5% 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

Classification

Technology feeds

References

Sources

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