CVE-2022-48794 Affecting kernel-docs package, versions <5.14.21-150500.55.73.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-KERNELDOCS-7698990
  • published17 Aug 2024
  • disclosed16 Aug 2024

Introduced: 16 Aug 2024

CVE-2022-48794  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 kernel-docs to version 5.14.21-150500.55.73.2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-docs package and not the kernel-docs package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.5 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

net: ieee802154: at86rf230: Stop leaking skb's

Upon error the ieee802154_xmit_complete() helper is not called. Only ieee802154_wake_queue() is called manually. In the Tx case we then leak the skb structure.

Free the skb structure upon error before returning when appropriate.

As the 'is_tx = 0' cannot be moved in the complete handler because of a possible race between the delay in switching to STATE_RX_AACK_ON and a new interrupt, we introduce an intermediate 'was_tx' boolean just for this purpose.

There is no Fixes tag applying here, many changes have been made on this area and the issue kind of always existed.

CVSS Scores

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