CVE-2022-48832

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.16-5.16.9 - Denial of Service via openat2 Audit Context Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: audit: don't deref the syscall args when checking the openat2 open_how::flags As reported by Jeff, dereferencing the openat2 syscall argument in audit_match_perm() to obtain the open_how::flags can result in an oops/page-fault. This patch fixes this by using the open_how struct that we store in the audit_context with audit_openat2_how(). Independent of this patch, Richard Guy Briggs posted a similar patch to the audit mailing list roughly 40 minutes after this patch was posted.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0022
EPSS Percentile 12.1%
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

Status published
Products (9)
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 5.16.10linux
Linux/Linux < 5.16
Linux/Linux 1c30e3af8a79260cdba833a719209b01e6b92300 - 310c9ddfdf1f8d3c9834f02175eae79c8b254b6c
Linux/Linux 1c30e3af8a79260cdba833a719209b01e6b92300 - 7a82f89de92aac5a244d3735b2bd162c1147620c
Linux/Linux 5.16
Linux/Linux 5.16.10 - 5.16.*
Linux/Linux 5.17
linux/linux_kernel 5.17 rc1 (3 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 5.16 - 5.16.10
Published Jul 16, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026