CVE-2022-42329

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

Guests can trigger deadlock in Linux netback driver T[his CNA information record relates to multiple CVEs; the text explains which aspects/vulnerabilities correspond to which CVE.] The patch for XSA-392 introduced another issue which might result in a deadlock when trying to free the SKB of a packet dropped due to the XSA-392 handling (CVE-2022-42328). Additionally when dropping packages for other reasons the same deadlock could occur in case of netpoll being active for the interface the xen-netback driver is connected to (CVE-2022-42329).

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-42329

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-42329.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed6.2-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed6.0.12-1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.10.158-1
debian debianforkyfixed6.0.12-1
debian debiansidfixed6.0.12-1
debian debiantrixiefixed6.0.12-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.