CVE-2022-48648

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.10-5.10.145, 5.11-5.15.70, 5.16-5.19.11 - Null Pointer Dereference in efx_hard_start_xmit

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sfc: fix null pointer dereference in efx_hard_start_xmit Trying to get the channel from the tx_queue variable here is wrong because we can only be here if tx_queue is NULL, so we shouldn't dereference it. As the above comment in the code says, this is very unlikely to happen, but it's wrong anyway so let's fix it. I hit this issue because of a different bug that caused tx_queue to be NULL. If that happens, this is the error message that we get here: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000020 [...] RIP: 0010:efx_hard_start_xmit+0x153/0x170 [sfc]

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0023
EPSS Percentile 13.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (15)
linux/Kernel 5.10.0 - 5.10.146linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.71linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 5.19.12linux
Linux/Linux < 5.10
Linux/Linux 12804793b17c0e19115a90d98f2f3df0cb79e233 - 0a242eb2913a4aa3d6fbdb86559f27628e9466f3
Linux/Linux 12804793b17c0e19115a90d98f2f3df0cb79e233 - 8547c7bfc0617e7184e4da65b9b96681fcfe9998
Linux/Linux 12804793b17c0e19115a90d98f2f3df0cb79e233 - b3b41d4d95d3822b2e459ecbc80d030ea6aec5e7
Linux/Linux 12804793b17c0e19115a90d98f2f3df0cb79e233 - b3b952168ee1f220ba729fa100fd9d5aa752eb03
Linux/Linux 5.10
Linux/Linux 5.10.146 - 5.10.*
... and 5 more
Published Apr 28, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026