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CVE-2022-50877

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

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Severity

Unknown

Red Hat Product Security

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CVSS

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Published · December 30, 2025

Updated · June 30, 2026

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().

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CWE not specified