vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2022-48784): linux-intel-iotg-5.15 vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Jul 16, 2024 | Nov 19, 2024 | Sep 1, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cfg80211: fix race in netlink owner interface destruction
My previous fix here to fix the deadlock left a race where
the exact same deadlock (see the original commit referenced
below) can still happen if cfg80211_destroy_ifaces() already
runs while nl80211_netlink_notify() is still marking some
interfaces as nl_owner_dead.
The race happens because we have two loops here - first we
dev_close() all the netdevs, and then we destroy them. If we
also have two netdevs (first one need only be a wdev though)
then we can find one during the first iteration, close it,
and go to the second iteration -- but then find two, and try
to destroy also the one we didn't close yet.
Fix this by only iterating once.
Solution
References
- CVE-2022-48784
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2022-48784
- CWE-362
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/linus/f0a6fd1527067da537e9c48390237488719948ed
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/241e633cb379c4f332fc1baf2abec95ec840cbeb
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c979f792a2baf6d0f3419587668a1a6eba46a3d2
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f0a6fd1527067da537e9c48390237488719948ed
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48784
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