CVE-2022-48794

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 4.9.303 - Use-After-Free in at86rf230 IEEE 802.15.4 Tx Error Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0024
EPSS Percentile 14.8%
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-401
Status published
Products (27)
linux/Kernel 3.19.0 - 4.9.303linux
linux/Kernel 4.10.0 - 4.14.268linux
linux/Kernel 4.15.0 - 4.19.231linux
linux/Kernel 4.20.0 - 5.4.181linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.25linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 5.16.11linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.102linux
Linux/Linux < 3.19
Linux/Linux 3.19
Linux/Linux 4.14.268 - 4.14.*
... and 17 more
Published Jul 16, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026