Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-doc  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNELDOC-6730331
  • published30 Apr 2024
  • disclosed28 Apr 2024

Introduced: 28 Apr 2024

CVE-2022-48637  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-doc package and not the kernel-doc package as distributed by RHEL.

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

bnxt: prevent skb UAF after handing over to PTP worker

When reading the timestamp is required bnxt_tx_int() hands over the ownership of the completed skb to the PTP worker. The skb should not be used afterwards, as the worker may run before the rest of our code and free the skb, leading to a use-after-free.

Since dev_kfree_skb_any() accepts NULL make the loss of ownership more obvious and set skb to NULL.