CVE-2022-49575

CVSS 3.1 Score 4.7 of 10 (medium)

Details

Published Feb 26, 2025
Updated: Mar 10, 2025
CWE ID 362

Summary

CVE-2022-49575 is a vulnerability affecting the Linux kernel that has been addressed. The issue involved a data race in the tcp subsystem, specifically in the sysctl_tcp_thin_linear_timeouts variable. Concurrent reads and writes to this variable could result in incorrect data being processed. To mitigate this risk, the Linux kernel developers have implemented the READ_ONCE() macro to ensure that the variable is read atomically during each access.

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