CVE-2022-50877

net: broadcom: bcm4908_enet: update TX stats after actual transmission

published December 30, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
8.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

net: broadcom: bcm4908_enet: update TX stats after actual transmission

Queueing packets doesn't guarantee their transmission. Update TX stats

after hardware confirms consuming submitted data.

This also fixes a possible race and NULL dereference.

bcm4908_enet_start_xmit() could try to access skb after freeing it in

the bcm4908_enet_poll_tx().

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00197 · 8.9th percentile
Published
2025-12-30T12:23Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 30 DEC 12:23Z
    net: broadcom: bcm4908_enet: update TX stats after actual transmission
    cvelistv5