Kernel crash via split-header length overflow
Published Feb 26, 2025 · Updated May 11, 2026
Integer overflow in the stmmac DWC Ethernet driver in Linux allows local users to crash the kernel on Tegra194 systems. In the receive path, split-header processing accepts a larger-than-expected buffer length and overflows the total-length calculation, producing an extremely large length. The condition requires a Tegra194 system using the DWC QoS Ethernet path with split-header processing enabled; no data exposure or modification is reported.
Summary
What happened
Integer overflow in the stmmac DWC Ethernet driver in Linux allows local users to crash the kernel on Tegra194 systems. In the receive path, split-header processing accepts a larger-than-expected buffer length and overflows the total-length calculation, producing an extremely large length. The condition requires a Tegra194 system using the DWC QoS Ethernet path with split-header processing enabled; no data exposure or modification is reported.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-49642
- Published
- Feb 26, 2025
- Updated
- May 11, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- CWE-190, CAPEC-92, T1499
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- 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=5.4
- Affected versionversion=67afd6d1cfdf0d0461fe3c4c922447f3e9b1c6ee <029c1c2059e9c4b38f97a06204cdecd10cfbeb8a
- Affected versionversion=67afd6d1cfdf0d0461fe3c4c922447f3e9b1c6ee <2968830c9b47ce093237483c6207c61065712386
- Affected versionversion=67afd6d1cfdf0d0461fe3c4c922447f3e9b1c6ee <9cc8edc571b871d974b3289868553f9ce544aba6
- Affected versionversion=67afd6d1cfdf0d0461fe3c4c922447f3e9b1c6ee <cfa4caf3e881ad6dd366c903c34f1c7f21b857ab
- Affected versionversion=67afd6d1cfdf0d0461fe3c4c922447f3e9b1c6ee <d5c315a787652c35045044877a249f7d5c8a4104
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