CVE-2022-50877 | net: broadcom: bcm4908_enet: update TX stats after actual transmission

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: broadcom: bcm4908_enet: update TX stats after actual transmission Queueing packets doesn't guarantee their transmission. Update TX stats after hardware confirms consuming submitted data. This also fixes a possible race and NULL dereference. bcm4908_enet_start_xmit() could try to access skb after freeing it in the bcm4908_enet_poll_tx().

Published: 2025-12-30 Last update: 2026-06-17 Assigner: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2022-50877 is rated Low Risk (6.3/100): low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.17%). Mandatory action: Low composite risk—no urgent action required; patch on your normal maintenance cycle and revisit priority if CVSS or EPSS increases.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2022-50877

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 2026-06-15 0.02% 0.17% +0.15%
2 2025-12-31 0.02%

Full EPSS history (2 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2022-50877

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Weakness enumeration for CVE-2022-50877

OS Trackers for CVE-2022-50877

vendor priority summary link
debian unimportant CVE-2022-50877 unimportant 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-2022-50877
redhat https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-50877
suse medium CVE-2022-50877 severity moderate: SUSE including 26 source package names (cluster-md-kmp-default, dlm-kmp-default, …), 221 product×package rows across 45 product lines (SLES-LTSS-TERADATA 15 SP2, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP3, … (45 product lines)): Known Not Affected 221. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-50877/
ubuntu medium CVE-2022-50877 medium priority: Ubuntu including 157 source packages (linux, linux-allwinner-5.19, …), 1405 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 1010, ignored 173, not-affected 116, released 105, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-50877

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2022-50877

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
linux linux_kernel >= 5.12, < 5.15.77 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linux linux_kernel >= 5.12, < 6.0.7 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linux linux_kernel >= 5.12, < 6.1 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2022-50877

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