CVE-2022-49010

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 3.0-6.0.11 - NULL Pointer Dereference in Coretemp CPU Offline Handler

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: (coretemp) Check for null before removing sysfs attrs If coretemp_add_core() gets an error then pdata->core_data[indx] is already NULL and has been kfreed. Don't pass that to sysfs_remove_group() as that will crash in sysfs_remove_group(). [Shortened for readability] [91854.020159] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/platform/coretemp.0/hwmon/hwmon2/temp20_label' <cpu offline> [91855.126115] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000188 [91855.165103] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [91855.194506] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [91855.224445] PGD 0 P4D 0 [91855.238508] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI ... [91855.342716] RIP: 0010:sysfs_remove_group+0xc/0x80 ... [91855.796571] Call Trace: [91855.810524] coretemp_cpu_offline+0x12b/0x1dd [coretemp] [91855.841738] ? coretemp_cpu_online+0x180/0x180 [coretemp] [91855.871107] cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x105/0x4b0 [91855.893432] cpuhp_thread_fun+0x8e/0x150 ... Fix this by checking for NULL first.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0024
EPSS Percentile 14.4%
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 (27)
linux/Kernel 3.0.0 - 4.9.335linux
linux/Kernel 4.10.0 - 4.14.301linux
linux/Kernel 4.15.0 - 4.19.268linux
linux/Kernel 4.20.0 - 5.4.226linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.82linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.0.12linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.158linux
Linux/Linux < 3.0
Linux/Linux 199e0de7f5df31a4fc485d4aaaf8a07718252ace - 070d5ea4a0592a37ad96ce7f7b6b024f90bb009f
Linux/Linux 199e0de7f5df31a4fc485d4aaaf8a07718252ace - 280110db1a7d62ad635b103bafc3ae96e8bef75c
... and 17 more
Published Oct 21, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026