Security Advisory

CVE-2022-49583

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-02-26 02:23:20
Last updated 2026-05-23 15:22:27
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iavf: Fix handling of dummy receive descriptors Fix memory leak caused by not handling dummy receive descriptor properly. iavf_get_rx_buffer now sets the rx_buffer return value for dummy receive descriptors. Without this patch, when the hardware writes a dummy descriptor, iavf would not free the page allocated for the previous receive buffer. This is an unlikely event but can still happen. [Jesse: massaged commit message]