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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2022-48810 json

ipmr,ip6mr: acquire RTNL before calling ip[6]mr_free_table() on failure path

published 2024-07-16 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-53689

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 11%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

ipmr,ip6mr: acquire RTNL before calling ip[6]mr_free_table() on failure path

ip[6]mr_free_table() can only be called under RTNL lock.

RTNL: assertion failed at net/core/dev.c (10367) WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 5890 at net/core/dev.c:10367 unregister_netdevice_many+0x1246/0x1850 net/core/dev.c:10367 Modules linked in: CPU: 1 PID: 5890 Comm: syz-executor.2 Not tainted 5.16.0-syzkaller-11627-g422ee58dc0ef #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011 RIP: 0010:unregister_netdevice_many+0x1246/0x1850 net/core/dev.c:10367 Code: 0f 85 9b ee ff ff e8 69 07 4b fa ba 7f 28 00 00 48 c7 c6 00 90 ae 8a 48 c7 c7 40 90 ae 8a c6 05 6d b1 51 06 01 e8 8c 90 d8 01 <0f> 0b e9 70 ee ff ff e8 3e 07 4b fa 4c 89 e7 e8 86 2a 59 fa e9 ee RSP: 0018:ffffc900046ff6e0 EFLAGS: 00010286 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: ffff888050f51d00 RSI: ffffffff815fa008 RDI: fffff520008dfece RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: ffffffff815f3d6e R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 00000000fffffff4 R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffffc900046ff750 R15: ffff88807b7dc000 FS: 00007f4ab736e700(0000) GS:ffff8880b9d00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007fee0b4f8990 CR3: 000000001e7d2000 CR4: 00000000003506e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> mroute_clean_tables+0x244/0xb40 net/ipv6/ip6mr.c:1509 ip6mr_free_table net/ipv6/ip6mr.c:389 [inline] ip6mr_rules_init net/ipv6/ip6mr.c:246 [inline] ip6mr_net_init net/ipv6/ip6mr.c:1306 [inline] ip6mr_net_init+0x3f0/0x4e0 net/ipv6/ip6mr.c:1298 ops_init+0xaf/0x470 net/core/net_namespace.c:140 setup_net+0x54f/0xbb0 net/core/net_namespace.c:331 copy_net_ns+0x318/0x760 net/core/net_namespace.c:475 create_new_namespaces+0x3f6/0xb20 kernel/nsproxy.c:110 copy_namespaces+0x391/0x450 kernel/nsproxy.c:178 copy_process+0x2e0c/0x7300 kernel/fork.c:2167 kernel_clone+0xe7/0xab0 kernel/fork.c:2555 __do_sys_clone+0xc8/0x110 kernel/fork.c:2672 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae RIP: 0033:0x7f4ab89f9059 Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at RIP 0x7f4ab89f902f. RSP: 002b:00007f4ab736e118 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000038 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f4ab8b0bf60 RCX: 00007f4ab89f9059 RDX: 0000000020000280 RSI: 0000000020000270 RDI: 0000000040200000 RBP: 00007f4ab8a5308d R08: 0000000020000300 R09: 0000000020000300 R10: 00000000200002c0 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 00007ffc3977cc1f R14: 00007f4ab736e300 R15: 0000000000022000 </TASK>

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 4.9.302, 4.14.267, 4.19.230, 5.4.180, 5.10.101, 5.15.24, 5.16.10, 5.17
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.16.10-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48810

  • linux Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.15.0-177.186
  • linux Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-110.124
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.15.0-1128.137
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1073.78
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1073.78
  • linux-ibm Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1021.23
  • linux-iot Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1004.6
  • linux-kvm Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.15.0-1114.117

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48810

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kernel-azure SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.5 5.14.21-150500.33.63.1
  • kernel-syms-azure SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.5 5.14.21-150500.33.63.1
  • kernel-source-azure SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.5 5.14.21-150500.33.63.1
  • kernel-syms SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5 4.12.14-122.225.1
  • kernel-source SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5 4.12.14-122.225.1
  • kernel-default SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Workstation Extension 12 SP5 +2 more 4.12.14-122.225.1
  • kernel-obs-build SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 4.12.14-122.225.1
  • dtb-aarch64 openSUSE Leap 15.5 5.14.21-150500.55.73.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2024:2947-1SUSE-SU-2024:2940-1SUSE-SU-2024:2939-1SUSE-SU-2024:2901-1SUSE-SU-2024:2894-1SUSE-SU-2024:2892-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-48810 updated cvss 5.5

kernel: ipmr,ip6mr: acquire RTNL before calling ip[6]mr_free_table() on failure path

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 11% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

Classification

Weakness
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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