CVE-2022-40476

Summary

CVECVE-2022-40476
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-09-14 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:52:00 UTC
DescriptionA null pointer dereference issue was discovered in fs/io_uring.c in the Linux kernel before 5.15.62. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system or potentially cause a denial of service.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-476

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.15.62 MISC mirrors.edge.kernel.org
KASAN: null-ptr-deref Write in io_file_get_normal - Jiacheng Xu MISC lore.kernel.org
KASAN: null-ptr-deref Write in io_file_get_normal - Jiacheng Xu lore.kernel.org
kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree MISC git.kernel.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 752911 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2022:3998-1)
  • 752913 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2022:4072-1)
  • 753063 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2022:4617-1)
  • 903911 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (10955)
  • 903919 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (10969)
  • 904085 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (10955-1)
  • 904134 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (10969-1)
  • 906137 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (10955-2)
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