CVE-2022-48896

MEDIUM

Linux kernel - Use After Free

Title source: llm

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ixgbe: fix pci device refcount leak As the comment of pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot() says, it returns a PCI device with refcount incremented, when finish using it, the caller must decrement the reference count by calling pci_dev_put(). In ixgbe_get_first_secondary_devfn() and ixgbe_x550em_a_has_mii(), pci_dev_put() is called to avoid leak.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0002
EPSS Percentile 3.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-401
Status published

Affected Products (8)

linux/linux_kernel < 5.4.229
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/Kernel < 5.4.229linux
linux/Kernel < 5.10.164linux
linux/Kernel < 5.15.89linux
linux/Kernel < 6.1.7linux

Timeline

Published Aug 21, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026