CVE-2022-48914

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Xen network frontend (xen-netfront) driver. During network device removal, transmit queues are not cleaned up before internal queue counters are reset to zero, leaving active references to freed memory. A local user could exploit this vulnerability during device teardown to trigger a kernel crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).

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