CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-48784
4.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-07-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cfg80211: fix race in netlink owner interface destruction
My previous fix here to fix the deadlock left a race where
the exact same deadlock (see the original commit referenced
below) can still happen if cfg80211_destroy_ifaces() already
runs while nl80211_netlink_notify() is still marking some
interfaces as nl_owner_dead.
The race happens because we have two loops here - first we
dev_close() all the netdevs, and then we destroy them. If we
also have two netdevs (first one need only be a wdev though)
then we can find one during the first iteration, close it,
and go to the second iteration -- but then find two, and try
to destroy also the one we didn't close yet.
Fix this by only iterating once.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.12.1 < 5.15.25)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.16.11)
• linux linux kernel 5.17
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/241e633cb379c4f332fc1baf2abec95ec840cbeb Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c979f792a2baf6d0f3419587668a1a6eba46a3d2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f0a6fd1527067da537e9c48390237488719948ed Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/241e633cb379c4f332fc1baf2abec95ec840cbeb Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c979f792a2baf6d0f3419587668a1a6eba46a3d2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f0a6fd1527067da537e9c48390237488719948ed Patch