Service interruption via hfi1 packet-delay overflow
Published Feb 26, 2025 · Updated May 11, 2026
Integer overflow in the RDMA hfi1 driver in affected Linux releases allows local users to interrupt service through link configuration. In set_link_ipg(), a shifted 32-bit maximum-packet-time value is multiplied by a 16-bit congestion-control multiplier before assignment to the 64-bit source register value, allowing the intermediate product to wrap. Exploitation requires local low-privileged access and active hfi1 hardware; successful triggering corrupts the inter-packet delay value and can interrupt kernel availability.
Summary
What happened
Integer overflow in the RDMA hfi1 driver in affected Linux releases allows local users to interrupt service through link configuration. In set_link_ipg(), a shifted 32-bit maximum-packet-time value is multiplied by a 16-bit congestion-control multiplier before assignment to the 64-bit source register value, allowing the intermediate product to wrap. Exploitation requires local low-privileged access and active hfi1 hardware; successful triggering corrupts the inter-packet delay value and can interrupt kernel availability.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-49404
- Published
- Feb 26, 2025
- Updated
- May 11, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- CWE-190, T1499
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Feb 26, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 11, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=4.3
- Affected versionversion=7724105686e718ac476a6ad3304fea2fbcfcffde <06039d8afefdbac05bcea5f397188407eba2996d
- Affected versionversion=7724105686e718ac476a6ad3304fea2fbcfcffde <252f4afd4557a2e7075f793a5c80fe6dd9e9ee4a
- Affected versionversion=7724105686e718ac476a6ad3304fea2fbcfcffde <31dca00d0cc9f4133320d72eb7e3720badc6d6e6
- Affected versionversion=7724105686e718ac476a6ad3304fea2fbcfcffde <3f09ec80f115d2875d747ed28adc1773037e0f8b
- Affected versionversion=7724105686e718ac476a6ad3304fea2fbcfcffde <79c164e61f818054cd6012e9035701840d895c51
- Affected versionversion=7724105686e718ac476a6ad3304fea2fbcfcffde <8858284dd74906fa00f04f0252c75df4893a7959
- Affected versionversion=7724105686e718ac476a6ad3304fea2fbcfcffde <a89cb7ddf6a89bab6012e19da38b7cdb26175c19
- Affected versionversion=7724105686e718ac476a6ad3304fea2fbcfcffde <ef5ab2e48a5f9960e2352332b7cdb7064bb49032
- Affected versionversion=7724105686e718ac476a6ad3304fea2fbcfcffde <f93e91a0372c922c20d5bee260b0f43b4b8a1bee
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