CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-48972

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-10-21 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2024-10-21
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: mac802154: fix missing INIT_LIST_HEAD in ieee802154_if_add() Kernel fault injection test reports null-ptr-deref as follows: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008 RIP: 0010:cfg802154_netdev_notifier_call+0x120/0x310 include/linux/list.h:114 Call Trace: <TASK> raw_notifier_call_chain+0x6d/0xa0 kernel/notifier.c:87 call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0x6e/0xc0 net/core/dev.c:1944 unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0x60d/0xcb0 net/core/dev.c:1982 unregister_netdevice_queue+0x154/0x1a0 net/core/dev.c:10879 register_netdevice+0x9a8/0xb90 net/core/dev.c:10083 ieee802154_if_add+0x6ed/0x7e0 net/mac802154/iface.c:659 ieee802154_register_hw+0x29c/0x330 net/mac802154/main.c:229 mcr20a_probe+0xaaa/0xcb1 drivers/net/ieee802154/mcr20a.c:1316 ieee802154_if_add() allocates wpan_dev as netdev's private data, but not init the list in struct wpan_dev. cfg802154_netdev_notifier_call() manage the list when device register/unregister, and may lead to null-ptr-deref. Use INIT_LIST_HEAD() on it to initialize it correctly.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 3.19 < 4.9.336) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.14.302) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.269) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.227) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.159) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.83) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.0.13) • linux linux kernel 6.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References