CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-48648
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-04-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sfc: fix null pointer dereference in efx_hard_start_xmit
Trying to get the channel from the tx_queue variable here is wrong
because we can only be here if tx_queue is NULL, so we shouldn't
dereference it. As the above comment in the code says, this is very
unlikely to happen, but it's wrong anyway so let's fix it.
I hit this issue because of a different bug that caused tx_queue to be
NULL. If that happens, this is the error message that we get here:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000020
[...]
RIP: 0010:efx_hard_start_xmit+0x153/0x170 [sfc]
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.10 < 5.10.146)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.71)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.19.12)
• linux linux kernel 6.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a242eb2913a4aa3d6fbdb86559f27628e9466f3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8547c7bfc0617e7184e4da65b9b96681fcfe9998 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3b41d4d95d3822b2e459ecbc80d030ea6aec5e7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3b952168ee1f220ba729fa100fd9d5aa752eb03 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a242eb2913a4aa3d6fbdb86559f27628e9466f3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8547c7bfc0617e7184e4da65b9b96681fcfe9998 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3b41d4d95d3822b2e459ecbc80d030ea6aec5e7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3b952168ee1f220ba729fa100fd9d5aa752eb03 Patch