{"cve":"CVE-2022-50816","nvd":{"published":"2025-12-30T13:15:55.963","modified":"2026-06-17T05:24:14.290","status":"Deferred","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipv6: ensure sane device mtu in tunnels\n\nAnother syzbot report [1] with no reproducer hints\nat a bug in ip6_gre tunnel (dev:ip6gretap0)\n\nSince ipv6 mcast code makes sure to read dev->mtu once\nand applies a sanity check on it (see commit b9b312a7a451\n\"ipv6: mcast: better catch silly mtu values\"), a remaining\npossibility is that a layer is able to set dev->mtu to\nan underflowed value (high order bit set).\n\nThis could happen indeed in ip6gre_tnl_link_config_route(),\nip6_tnl_link_config() and ipip6_tunnel_bind_dev()\n\nMake sure to sanitize mtu value in a local variable before\nit is written once on dev->mtu, as lockless readers could\ncatch wrong temporary value.\n\n[1]\nskbuff: skb_over_panic: text:ffff80000b7a2f38 len:40 put:40 head:ffff000149dcf200 data:ffff000149dcf2b0 tail:0xd8 end:0xc0 dev:ip6gretap0\n------------[ cut here ]------------\nkernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:120\nInternal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] PREEMPT SMP\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 1 PID: 10241 Comm: kworker/1:1 Not tainted 6.0.0-rc7-syzkaller-18095-gbbed346d5a96 #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/30/2022\nWorkqueue: mld mld_ifc_work\npstate: 60400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)\npc : skb_panic+0x4c/0x50 net/core/skbuff.c:116\nlr : skb_panic+0x4c/0x50 net/core/skbuff.c:116\nsp : ffff800020dd3b60\nx29: ffff800020dd3b70 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: ffff00010df2a800\nx26: 00000000000000c0 x25: 00000000000000b0 x24: ffff000149dcf200\nx23: 00000000000000c0 x22: 00000000000000d8 x21: ffff80000b7a2f38\nx20: ffff00014c2f7800 x19: 0000000000000028 x18: 00000000000001a9\nx17: 0000000000000000 x16: ffff80000db49158 x15: ffff000113bf1a80\nx14: 0000000000000000 x13: 00000000ffffffff x12: ffff000113bf1a80\nx11: ff808000081c0d5c x10: 0000000000000000 x9 : 73f125dc5c63ba00\nx8 : 73f125dc5c63ba00 x7 : ffff800008161d1c x6 : 0000000000000000\nx5 : 0000000000000080 x4 : 0000000000000001 x3 : 0000000000000000\nx2 : ffff0001fefddcd0 x1 : 0000000100000000 x0 : 0000000000000089\nCall trace:\nskb_panic+0x4c/0x50 net/core/skbuff.c:116\nskb_over_panic net/core/skbuff.c:125 [inline]\nskb_put+0xd4/0xdc net/core/skbuff.c:2049\nip6_mc_hdr net/ipv6/mcast.c:1714 [inline]\nmld_newpack+0x14c/0x270 net/ipv6/mcast.c:1765\nadd_grhead net/ipv6/mcast.c:1851 [inline]\nadd_grec+0xa20/0xae0 net/ipv6/mcast.c:1989\nmld_send_cr+0x438/0x5a8 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2115\nmld_ifc_work+0x38/0x290 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2653\nprocess_one_work+0x2d8/0x504 kernel/workqueue.c:2289\nworker_thread+0x340/0x610 kernel/workqueue.c:2436\nkthread+0x12c/0x158 kernel/kthread.c:376\nret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:860\nCode: 91011400 aa0803e1 a90027ea 94373093 (d4210000)","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2bab6fa449d16af36d9c9518865f783a15f446c7","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44affe7ede596f078c4f2f41e0d160266ccda818","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/78297d513157a31fd629626fe4cbb85a7dcbb94a","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad3f1d9bf162c487d23df684852597961b745cae","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/af51fc23a03f02b0c6df09ab0d60f23794436052"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:18:08.089039631+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2022-50816","score":0.00251,"percentile":0.16554,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}