Attempt to Access Child of a Non-structure Pointer Affecting kernel-cross-headers package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNELCROSSHEADERS-6731444
  • published30 Apr 2024
  • disclosed28 Apr 2024

Introduced: 28 Apr 2024

CVE-2022-48638  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-588  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:9 kernel-cross-headers.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-cross-headers package and not the kernel-cross-headers package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

cgroup: cgroup_get_from_id() must check the looked-up kn is a directory

cgroup has to be one kernfs dir, otherwise kernel panic is caused, especially cgroup id is provide from userspace.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1