DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50486

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-50486
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JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50486
Upstream
Published
2025-10-04T16:15:45Z
Modified
2025-10-05T08:09:53.169638Z
Summary
[none]
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ethernet: ti: Fix return type of netcpndostartxmit() With clang's kernel control flow integrity (kCFI, CONFIGCFICLANG), indirect call targets are validated against the expected function pointer prototype to make sure the call target is valid to help mitigate ROP attacks. If they are not identical, there is a failure at run time, which manifests as either a kernel panic or thread getting killed. A proposed warning in clang aims to catch these at compile time, which reveals: drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcpcore.c:1944:21: error: incompatible function pointer types initializing 'netdevtxt ()(struct sk_buff *, struct net_device *)' (aka 'enum netdev_tx ()(struct skbuff *, struct netdevice *)') with an expression of type 'int (struct skbuff *, struct netdevice *)' [-Werror,-Wincompatible-function-pointer-types-strict] .ndostartxmit = netcpndostartxmit, ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1 error generated. ->ndostartxmit() in 'struct netdeviceops' expects a return type of 'netdevtxt', not 'int'. Adjust the return type of netcpndostartxmit() to match the prototype's to resolve the warning and CFI failure.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.10.178-1

Affected versions

5.*

5.10.46-4
5.10.46-5
5.10.70-1~bpo10+1
5.10.70-1
5.10.84-1
5.10.92-1~bpo10+1
5.10.92-1
5.10.92-2
5.10.103-1~bpo10+1
5.10.103-1
5.10.106-1
5.10.113-1
5.10.120-1~bpo10+1
5.10.120-1
5.10.127-1
5.10.127-2~bpo10+1
5.10.127-2
5.10.136-1
5.10.140-1
5.10.148-1
5.10.149-1
5.10.149-2
5.10.158-1
5.10.158-2
5.10.162-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.1.4-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.1.4-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.1.4-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}