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Privileges Required
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CVE-2022-48659

Disclosure Date: April 28, 2024 •
CVE-2022-48659 CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5
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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/slub: fix to return errno if kmalloc() fails

In create_unique_id(), kmalloc(, GFP_KERNEL) can fail due to
out-of-memory, if it fails, return errno correctly rather than
triggering panic via BUG_ON();

kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:5893!
Internal error: Oops – BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT SMP

Call trace:
sysfs_slab_add+0x258/0x260 mm/slub.c:5973
__kmem_cache_create+0x60/0x118 mm/slub.c:4899
create_cache mm/slab_common.c:229 [inline]
kmem_cache_create_usercopy+0x19c/0x31c mm/slab_common.c:335
kmem_cache_create+0x1c/0x28 mm/slab_common.c:390
f2fs_kmem_cache_create fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:2766 [inline]
f2fs_init_xattr_caches+0x78/0xb4 fs/f2fs/xattr.c:808
f2fs_fill_super+0x1050/0x1e0c fs/f2fs/super.c:4149
mount_bdev+0x1b8/0x210 fs/super.c:1400
f2fs_mount+0x44/0x58 fs/f2fs/super.c:4512
legacy_get_tree+0x30/0x74 fs/fs_context.c:610
vfs_get_tree+0x40/0x140 fs/super.c:1530
do_new_mount+0x1dc/0x4e4 fs/namespace.c:3040
path_mount+0x358/0x914 fs/namespace.c:3370
do_mount fs/namespace.c:3383 [inline]
__do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3591 [inline]
__se_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3568 [inline]
__arm64_sys_mount+0x2f8/0x408 fs/namespace.c:3568

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CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Base Score:
5.5 Medium
Impact Score:
3.6
Exploitability Score:
1.8
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector (AV):
Local
Attack Complexity (AC):
Low
Privileges Required (PR):
Low
User Interaction (UI):
None
Scope (S):
Unchanged
Confidentiality (C):
None
Integrity (I):
None
Availability (A):
High

General Information

Offensive Application
Unknown
Utility Class
Unknown
Ports
Unknown
OS
Unknown
Vulnerable Versions
Linux e9219fa63c5c
Linux not down converted
Prerequisites
Unknown
Discovered By
Unknown
PoC Author
Unknown
Metasploit Module
Unknown
Reporter
Unknown

Vendors

  • linux

Products

  • linux kernel
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