Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 30, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2022-50877

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: broadcom: bcm4908_enet: update TX stats after actual transmission

Queueing packets doesn't guarantee their transmission. Update TX stats after hardware confirms consuming submitted data.

This also fixes a possible race and NULL dereference. bcm4908_enet_start_xmit() could try to access skb after freeing it in the bcm4908_enet_poll_tx().

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Affected products

Linux/Kernelllm-fuzzy
osv-coords
pkg:linux/kernel
Range: >= 5.12.0, < 5.15.77

Patches

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References

git.kernel.org/stable/c/2adedc80faec243ede55355e57142110d6f46e08nvd
git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9589e18a60c55c76772a38117ef9a16b942e56bnvd
git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef3556ee16c68735ec69bd08df41d1cd83b14ad3nvd

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