Vulnerabilities > CVE-2022-49307 - NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Linux Kernel
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tty: synclink_gt: Fix null-pointer-dereference in slgt_clean() When the driver fails at alloc_hdlcdev(), and then we remove the driver module, we will get the following splat: [ 25.065966] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000182: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI [ 25.066914] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000c10-0x0000000000000c17] [ 25.069262] RIP: 0010:detach_hdlc_protocol+0x2a/0x3e0 [ 25.077709] Call Trace: [ 25.077924] <TASK> [ 25.078108] unregister_hdlc_device+0x16/0x30 [ 25.078481] slgt_cleanup+0x157/0x9f0 [synclink_gt] Fix this by checking whether the 'info->netdev' is a null pointer first.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/078212ad15dbd88840c82c97f12c93d83703c8fd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ceb4ca9543a8a788febf6bc8dad2e605e172d5e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/50c341f9a2adc4c32a8ad5a39eb99d9c4a419e0d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/689ca31c542687709ba21ec2195c1fbce34fd029
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a95696bdc0e13f8980f05b54a3b9081963d1256
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba08cbc5b53e151d0acf1930fb526fc65b7f3e65
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d68d5e68b7f64de7170f8e04dd9b995c36b2c71c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ddd67751ab86c6a65f95c35293c42f85a42ac05d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f6e07eb7ebec53ffe81fc2489589320fbe4a6b75