{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2025-12-09T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: RDMA/rxe: Fix \"kernel NULL pointer dereference\" error",
    "id" : "2420356",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2420356"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "4.7",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-824",
  "details" : [ "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\nRDMA/rxe: Fix \"kernel NULL pointer dereference\" error\nWhen rxe_queue_init in the function rxe_qp_init_req fails,\nboth qp->req.task.func and qp->req.task.arg are not initialized.\nBecause of creation of qp fails, the function rxe_create_qp will\ncall rxe_qp_do_cleanup to handle allocated resource.\nBefore calling __rxe_do_task, both qp->req.task.func and\nqp->req.task.arg should be checked.", "A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability was found in the RXE (Soft-RoCE) RDMA driver in the Linux kernel. When rxe_queue_init() fails during queue pair initialization in rxe_qp_init_req(), the task function and argument pointers (qp->req.task.func and qp->req.task.arg) remain uninitialized. The cleanup function rxe_qp_do_cleanup() then attempts to use these uninitialized pointers when calling __rxe_do_task(), causing a kernel NULL pointer dereference." ],
  "statement" : "This is a NULL pointer dereference in the Soft-RoCE RDMA driver that can cause a kernel crash. The vulnerability requires local access and the ability to create RDMA queue pairs, limiting the attack surface to users with RDMA access.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2023-05-16T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2023:2951",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-477.10.1.el8_8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2023-11-07T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2023:6583",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2023-11-07T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2023:6583",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Fix deferred",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Fix deferred",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Fix deferred",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Fix deferred",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50671\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-50671\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025120946-CVE-2022-50671-e025@gregkh/T" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2022-50671",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "To mitigate this issue, prevent the rdma_rxe module from being loaded. See https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278 for instructions on how to blacklist a kernel module.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}