CVE-2022-49584

MEDIUMNVD 5.55.5—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 5.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2025-10-22. NVD baseline CVSS 5.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, nvd
5.5
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS: 0%CVSS: 5.5Exploit: NoneExposed: 0

A fix is available — apply it.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ixgbe: Add locking to prevent panic when setting sriov_numvfs to zero

It is possible to disable VFs while the PF driver is processing requests from the VF driver. This can result in a panic.

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 000000000000106c PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI CPU: 8 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/8 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G I --------- - Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R740/06WXJT, BIOS 2.8.2 08/27/2020 RIP: 0010:ixgbe_msg_task+0x4c8/0x1690 [ixgbe] Code: 00 00 48 8d 04 40 48 c1 e0 05 89 7c 24 24 89 fd 48 89 44 24 10 83 ff 01 0f 84 b8 04 00 00 4c 8b 64 24 10 4d 03 a5 48 22 00 00 <41> 80 7c 24 4c 00 0f 84 8a 03 00 00 0f b7 c7 83 f8 08 0f 84 8f 0a RSP: 0018:ffffb337869f8df8 EFLAGS: 00010002 RAX: 0000000000001020 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 000000000000002b RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: 0000000000000006 RBP: 0000000000000006 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 0000000000029780 R10: 00006957d8f42832 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000001020 R13: ffff8a00e8978ac0 R14: 000000000000002b R15: ffff8a00e8979c80 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8a07dfd00000(0000) knlGS:00000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 000000000000106c CR3: 0000000063e10004 CR4: 00000000007726e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 PKRU: 55555554 Call Trace: ? ttwu_do_wakeup+0x19/0x140 ? try_to_wake_up+0x1cd/0x550 ? ixgbevf_update_xcast_mode+0x71/0xc0 [ixgbevf] ixgbe_msix_other+0x17e/0x310 [ixgbe] __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x40/0x180 handle_irq_event_percpu+0x30/0x80 handle_irq_event+0x36/0x53 handle_edge_irq+0x82/0x190 handle_irq+0x1c/0x30 do_IRQ+0x49/0xd0 common_interrupt+0xf/0xf

This can be eventually be reproduced with the following script:

while : do echo 63 > /sys/class/net//device/sriov_numvfs sleep 1 echo 0 > /sys/class/net//device/sriov_numvfs sleep 1 done

Add lock when disabling SR-IOV to prevent process VF mailbox communication.

CVSS v3
5.5
EG Score
5.5(medium)
EG Risk
—
EPSS
9.0%
KEV
Not listed

Published

February 26, 2025

Last Modified

October 22, 2025

References (5)

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2022-49584(2)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(2)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
redhatkernel-0:5.14.0-162.6.1.el9_12022-11-15redhat
redhatkernel-0:4.18.0-425.3.1.el82022-11-08redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Weakness Classification(1)

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2022-49584?
CVE-2022-49584 is a medium vulnerability published on February 26, 2025. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ixgbe: Add locking to prevent panic when setting sriov_numvfs to zero It is possible to disable VFs while the PF driver is processing requests from the VF driver. This can result in a panic. BUG: unable to handle kernel paging…
When was CVE-2022-49584 disclosed?
CVE-2022-49584 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on February 26, 2025, with the most recent update on October 22, 2025. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2022-49584 actively exploited?
CVE-2022-49584 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 9.0% percentile likelihood of exploitation in the next 30 days — higher percentiles indicate greater predicted risk.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2022-49584?
CVE-2022-49584 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.5 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2022-49584?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2022-49584, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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