CVE-2022-50003 | ice: xsk: prohibit usage of non-balanced queue id

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ice: xsk: prohibit usage of non-balanced queue id Fix the following scenario: 1. ethtool -L $IFACE rx 8 tx 96 2. xdpsock -q 10 -t -z Above refers to a case where user would like to attach XSK socket in txonly mode at a queue id that does not have a corresponding Rx queue. At this moment ice's XSK logic is tightly bound to act on a "queue pair", e.g. both Tx and Rx queues at a given queue id are disabled/enabled and both of them will get XSK pool assigned, which is broken for the presented queue configuration. This results in the splat included at the bottom, which is basically an OOB access to Rx ring array. To fix this, allow using the ids only in scope of "combined" queues reported by ethtool. However, logic should be rewritten to allow such configurations later on, which would end up as a complete rewrite of the control path, so let us go with this temporary fix. [420160.558008] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000082 [420160.566359] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [420160.572657] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [420160.579002] PGD 0 P4D 0 [420160.582756] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI [420160.588396] CPU: 10 PID: 21232 Comm: xdpsock Tainted: G OE 5.19.0-rc7+ #10 [420160.597893] Hardware name: Intel Corporation S2600WFT/S2600WFT, BIOS SE5C620.86B.02.01.0008.031920191559 03/19/2019 [420160.609894] RIP: 0010:ice_xsk_pool_setup+0x44/0x7d0 [ice] [420160.616968] Code: f3 48 83 ec 40 48 8b 4f 20 48 8b 3f 65 48 8b 04 25 28 00 00 00 48 89 44 24 38 31 c0 48 8d 04 ed 00 00 00 00 48 01 c1 48 8b 11 <0f> b7 92 82 00 00 00 48 85 d2 0f 84 2d 75 00 00 48 8d 72 ff 48 85 [420160.639421] RSP: 0018:ffffc9002d2afd48 EFLAGS: 00010282 [420160.646650] RAX: 0000000000000050 RBX: ffff88811d8bdd00 RCX: ffff888112c14ff8 [420160.655893] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff88811d8bdd00 RDI: ffff888109861000 [420160.665166] RBP: 000000000000000a R08: 000000000000000a R09: 0000000000000000 [420160.674493] R10: 000000000000889f R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 000000000000000a [420160.683833] R13: 000000000000000a R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff888117611828 [420160.693211] FS: 00007fa869fc1f80(0000) GS:ffff8897e0880000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [420160.703645] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [420160.711783] CR2: 0000000000000082 CR3: 00000001d076c001 CR4: 00000000007706e0 [420160.721399] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [420160.731045] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [420160.740707] PKRU: 55555554 [420160.745960] Call Trace: [420160.750962] <TASK> [420160.755597] ? kmalloc_large_node+0x79/0x90 [420160.762703] ? __kmalloc_node+0x3f5/0x4b0 [420160.769341] xp_assign_dev+0xfd/0x210 [420160.775661] ? shmem_file_read_iter+0x29a/0x420 [420160.782896] xsk_bind+0x152/0x490 [420160.788943] __sys_bind+0xd0/0x100 [420160.795097] ? exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x20/0x120 [420160.802801] __x64_sys_bind+0x16/0x20 [420160.809298] do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90 [420160.815741] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd [420160.823731] RIP: 0033:0x7fa86a0dd2fb [420160.830264] Code: c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 8b 15 69 8b 0c 00 f7 d8 64 89 02 b8 ff ff ff ff eb bc 0f 1f 44 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa b8 31 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 3d 8b 0c 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 [420160.855410] RSP: 002b:00007ffc1146f618 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000031 [420160.866366] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007fa86a0dd2fb [420160.876957] RDX: 0000000000000010 RSI: 00007ffc1146f680 RDI: 0000000000000003 [420160.887604] RBP: 000055d7113a0520 R08: 00007fa868fb8000 R09: 0000000080000000 [420160.898293] R10: 0000000000008001 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 000055d7113a04e0 [420160.909038] R13: 000055d7113a0320 R14: 000000000000000a R15: 0000000000000000 [420160.919817] </TASK> [420160.925659] Modules linked in: ice(OE) af_packet binfmt_misc ---truncated---

Published: 2025-06-18 Last update: 2025-11-14 Assigner: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2022-50003 is rated Low Risk (30.1/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.08%). Mandatory action: Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2022-50003

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-04-14 0.02% 0.08% +0.06%
2 2025-06-18 0.02%

Full EPSS history (2 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2022-50003

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.5 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:L)
A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
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Weakness enumeration for CVE-2022-50003

OS Trackers for CVE-2022-50003

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2022-50003 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (linux), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-50003
redhat medium https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-50003
suse medium https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-50003/
ubuntu medium CVE-2022-50003 medium priority: Ubuntu including 158 source packages (linux, linux-allwinner-5.19, …), 1551 status rows across 10 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 1145, ignored 147, not-affected 144, released 114, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-50003

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2022-50003

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
linux linux_kernel >= 5.5, < 5.10.140 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linux linux_kernel >= 5.11, < 5.15.64 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linux linux_kernel >= 5.16, < 5.19.6 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linux linux_kernel 6.0 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
linux linux_kernel 6.0 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2022-50003

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