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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-50472

critical Nessus Plugin ID 269434

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

 - IB/mad: Don't call to function that might sleep while in atomic context Tracepoints are not allowed to sleep, as such the following splat is generated due to call to ib_query_pkey() in atomic context. WARNING:
 CPU: 0 PID: 1888000 at kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:2492 rb_commit+0xc1/0x220 CPU: 0 PID: 1888000 Comm:
 kworker/u9:0 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G OE --------- - - 4.18.0-305.3.1.el8.x86_64 #1 Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.13.0-2.module_el8.3.0+555+a55c8938 04/01/2014 Workqueue: ib-comp-unb-wq ib_cq_poll_work [ib_core] RIP: 0010:rb_commit+0xc1/0x220 RSP: 0000:ffffa8ac80f9bca0 EFLAGS: 00010202 RAX: ffff8951c7c01300 RBX: ffff8951c7c14a00 RCX: 0000000000000246 RDX: ffff8951c707c000 RSI: ffff8951c707c57c RDI:
 ffff8951c7c14a00 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: ffff8951c7c01300 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000246 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffffff964c70c0 R15:
 0000000000000000 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8951fbc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS:
 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f20e8f39010 CR3: 000000002ca10005 CR4: 0000000000170ef0 Call Trace: ring_buffer_unlock_commit+0x1d/0xa0 trace_buffer_unlock_commit_regs+0x3b/0x1b0 trace_event_buffer_commit+0x67/0x1d0 trace_event_raw_event_ib_mad_recv_done_handler+0x11c/0x160 [ib_core] ib_mad_recv_done+0x48b/0xc10 [ib_core] ? trace_event_raw_event_cq_poll+0x6f/0xb0 [ib_core]
 __ib_process_cq+0x91/0x1c0 [ib_core] ib_cq_poll_work+0x26/0x80 [ib_core] process_one_work+0x1a7/0x360 ? create_worker+0x1a0/0x1a0 worker_thread+0x30/0x390 ? create_worker+0x1a0/0x1a0 kthread+0x116/0x130 ? kthread_flush_work_fn+0x10/0x10 ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40 ---[ end trace 78ba8509d3830a16 ]--- (CVE-2022-50472)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-50472

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 269434

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2022_50472.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 10/8/2025

Updated: 10/8/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-50472

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/4/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-50472