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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Oct 21, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Oct 25, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mac802154: fix missing INIT_LIST_HEAD in ieee802154_if_add()

Kernel fault injection test reports null-ptr-deref as follows:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008
RIP: 0010:cfg802154_netdev_notifier_call+0x120/0x310 include/linux/list.h:114
Call Trace:

raw_notifier_call_chain+0x6d/0xa0 kernel/notifier.c:87
call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0x6e/0xc0 net/core/dev.c:1944
unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0x60d/0xcb0 net/core/dev.c:1982
unregister_netdevice_queue+0x154/0x1a0 net/core/dev.c:10879
register_netdevice+0x9a8/0xb90 net/core/dev.c:10083
ieee802154_if_add+0x6ed/0x7e0 net/mac802154/iface.c:659
ieee802154_register_hw+0x29c/0x330 net/mac802154/main.c:229
mcr20a_probe+0xaaa/0xcb1 drivers/net/ieee802154/mcr20a.c:1316

ieee802154_if_add() allocates wpan_dev as netdev's private data, but not
init the list in struct wpan_dev. cfg802154_netdev_notifier_call() manage
the list when device register/unregister, and may lead to null-ptr-deref.

Use INIT_LIST_HEAD() on it to initialize it correctly.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Oct 21, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 21, 2024
Last updated Oct 25, 2024

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.042%
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-48972

GHSA ID

GHSA-64w2-5c96-v3qj

Source code

No known source code

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