Unspecified impact via TCP zerocopy data race
Published May 3, 2024 · Updated May 11, 2026
A data race in Linux kernel 5.14 through 5.19.8 allows local users to cause unspecified impact through TCP zerocopy transmission. The tcp_build_frag path calls page_is_pfmemalloc on user-supplied or other-layer pages, concurrently reading the low bit of page->lru.next while lru_add_fn updates that list pointer. Reachability requires local sendfile or splice activity on a TCP socket; upstream describes the KCSAN report as mostly a false positive and documents no concrete corruption or service interruption.
Summary
What happened
A data race in Linux kernel 5.14 through 5.19.8 allows local users to cause unspecified impact through TCP zerocopy transmission. The tcp_build_frag path calls page_is_pfmemalloc on user-supplied or other-layer pages, concurrently reading the low bit of page->lru.next while lru_add_fn updates that list pointer. Reachability requires local sendfile or splice activity on a TCP socket; upstream describes the KCSAN report as mostly a false positive and documents no concrete corruption or service interruption.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-48689
- Published
- May 3, 2024
- Updated
- May 11, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- Unavailable
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- May 3, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 11, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=5.14
- Affected versionversion=c07aea3ef4d4076f18f567b98ed01e082e02ed51 <3261400639463a853ba2b3be8bd009c2a8089775
- Affected versionversion=c07aea3ef4d4076f18f567b98ed01e082e02ed51 <6730c48ed6b0cd939fc9b30b2d621ce0b89bea83
- Affected versionversion=c07aea3ef4d4076f18f567b98ed01e082e02ed51 <8527c9a6bf8e54fef0a8d3d7d8874a48c725c915
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