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        "cveId": "CVE-2022-49234",
        "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
        "state": "PUBLISHED",
        "assignerShortName": "Linux",
        "dateReserved": "2025-02-26T01:49:39.294Z",
        "datePublished": "2025-02-26T01:55:59.615Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T08:54:26.338Z"
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                "shortName": "Linux",
                "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T08:54:26.338Z"
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                    "lang": "en",
                    "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: dsa: Avoid cross-chip syncing of VLAN filtering\n\nChanges to VLAN filtering are not applicable to cross-chip\nnotifications.\n\nOn a system like this:\n\n.-----.   .-----.   .-----.\n| sw1 +---+ sw2 +---+ sw3 |\n'-1-2-'   '-1-2-'   '-1-2-'\n\nBefore this change, upon sw1p1 leaving a bridge, a call to\ndsa_port_vlan_filtering would also be made to sw2p1 and sw3p1.\n\nIn this scenario:\n\n.---------.   .-----.   .-----.\n|   sw1   +---+ sw2 +---+ sw3 |\n'-1-2-3-4-'   '-1-2-'   '-1-2-'\n\nWhen sw1p4 would leave a bridge, dsa_port_vlan_filtering would be\ncalled for sw2 and sw3 with a non-existing port - leading to array\nout-of-bounds accesses and crashes on mv88e6xxx."
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                        "version": "3.1",
                        "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                        "baseScore": 7.8,
                        "baseSeverity": "HIGH"
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                            "lang": "en",
                            "value": "AV:L - Exploitation requires local netlink/ioctl bridge configuration (enslave a DSA user port then leave the bridge); the buggy path is not reachable from remote packet processing.\nAC:L - On a multi-chip DSA fabric with unequal port counts (the severe but realistic deployment), an attacker who can configure bridges can reliably trigger the OOB by enabling vlan_filtering, joining a high-indexed port, then removing it—no conditions outside attacker control.\nPR:L - Triggering requires CAP_NET_ADMIN to manipulate bridge membership of DSA ports; per kernel CNA guidance that capability is treated as Low when obtainable in a user/network namespace that holds those ports, not full init-namespace root beyond that.\nUI:N - The attacker performs the bridge join/leave operations themselves; no separate victim action is required.\nS:U - Impact is confined to the host kernel/DSA subsystem; this is not a VM escape, IOMMU bypass, or other cross-authority boundary crossing.\nC:H - The bug is an out-of-bounds access on the dsa_switch flexible ports array (and related structures), which reads past the allocation and can disclose adjacent kernel memory.\nI:H - For drivers without vlan_filtering_is_global (including mv88e6xxx), dsa_port_vlan_filtering writes dp->vlan_filtering through the OOB port pointer, producing an out-of-bounds write exploitable for memory corruption.\nA:H - The same OOB/NULL path causes kernel oops/crashes on mv88e6xxx and peer switches when a non-existent port index is used, fully disrupting system availability."
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