CVE-2022-49903

ipv6: fix WARNING in ip6_route_net_exit_late()

published May 1, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
11.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

ipv6: fix WARNING in ip6_route_net_exit_late()

During the initialization of ip6_route_net_init_late(), if file

ipv6_route or rt6_stats fails to be created, the initialization is

successful by default. Therefore, the ipv6_route or rt6_stats file

doesn't be found during the remove in ip6_route_net_exit_late(). It

will cause WRNING.

The following is the stack information:

name 'rt6_stats'

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 9 at fs/proc/generic.c:712 remove_proc_entry+0x389/0x460

Modules linked in:

Workqueue: netns cleanup_net

RIP: 0010:remove_proc_entry+0x389/0x460

PKRU: 55555554

Call Trace:

<TASK>

ops_exit_list+0xb0/0x170

cleanup_net+0x4ea/0xb00

process_one_work+0x9bf/0x1710

worker_thread+0x665/0x1080

kthread+0x2e4/0x3a0

ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30

</TASK>

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00218 · 11.6th percentile
Published
2025-05-01T14:10Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 MAY 14:10Z
    ipv6: fix WARNING in ip6_route_net_exit_late()
    cvelistv5