medium 5.5

CVE-2022-48811 json

ibmvnic: don't release napi in __ibmvnic_open()

published 2024-07-16 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-53690

cvss: 5.5; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.3%; EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 19%
public exploits: 0; none known

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

If __ibmvnic_open() encounters an error such as when setting link state, it calls release_resources() which frees the napi structures needlessly. Instead, have __ibmvnic_open() only clean up the work it did so far (i.e. disable napi and irqs) and leave the rest to the callers.

If caller of __ibmvnic_open() is ibmvnic_open(), it should release the resources immediately. If the caller is do_reset() or do_hard_reset(), they will release the resources on the next reset.

This fixes following crash that occurred when running the drmgr command several times to add/remove a vnic interface:

[102056] ibmvnic 30000003 env3: Disabling rx_scrq[6] irq [102056] ibmvnic 30000003 env3: Disabling rx_scrq[7] irq [102056] ibmvnic 30000003 env3: Replenished 8 pools Kernel attempted to read user page (10) - exploit attempt? (uid: 0) BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000010 Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000a3c840 Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Radix SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries ... CPU: 9 PID: 102056 Comm: kworker/9:2 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.16.0-rc5-autotest-g6441998e2e37 #1 Workqueue: events_long __ibmvnic_reset [ibmvnic] NIP: c000000000a3c840 LR: c0080000029b5378 CTR: c000000000a3c820 REGS: c0000000548e37e0 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (5.16.0-rc5-autotest-g6441998e2e37) MSR: 8000000000009033 <SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 28248484 XER: 00000004 CFAR: c0080000029bdd24 DAR: 0000000000000010 DSISR: 40000000 IRQMASK: 0 GPR00: c0080000029b55d0 c0000000548e3a80 c0000000028f0200 0000000000000000 ... NIP [c000000000a3c840] napi_enable+0x20/0xc0 LR [c0080000029b5378] __ibmvnic_open+0xf0/0x430 [ibmvnic] Call Trace: [c0000000548e3a80] [0000000000000006] 0x6 (unreliable) [c0000000548e3ab0] [c0080000029b55d0] __ibmvnic_open+0x348/0x430 [ibmvnic] [c0000000548e3b40] [c0080000029bcc28] __ibmvnic_reset+0x500/0xdf0 [ibmvnic] [c0000000548e3c60] [c000000000176228] process_one_work+0x288/0x570 [c0000000548e3d00] [c000000000176588] worker_thread+0x78/0x660 [c0000000548e3da0] [c0000000001822f0] kthread+0x1c0/0x1d0 [c0000000548e3e10] [c00000000000cf64] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64 Instruction dump: 7d2948f8 792307e0 4e800020 60000000 3c4c01eb 384239e0 f821ffd1 39430010 38a0fff6 e92d1100 f9210028 39200000 <e9030010> f9010020 60420000 e9210020 ---[ end trace 5f8033b08fd27706 ]---

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 distros 3 links 3

Linux Linux 5.15.27, 5.16.10, 5.17

debian ubuntu suse

linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.16.10-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48811

linux-intel-iotg-5.15 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.15.0-1008.11~20.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48811

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-64kb SLES 15 SP3-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS, Enterprise Storage 7.1 5.3.18-150300.59.174.1
kernel-syms SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES 15 SP3-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS +1 more 5.3.18-150300.59.174.1
kernel-source SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES 15 SP3-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS +1 more 5.3.18-150300.59.174.1
kernel-default SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES 15 SP3-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.2 +5 more 5.3.18-150300.59.174.1
kernel-preempt SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES 15 SP3-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS +1 more 5.3.18-150300.59.174.1
kernel-obs-build SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES 15 SP3-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS +1 more 5.3.18-150300.59.174.1
kernel-default-base SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES 15 SP3-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.2 +3 more 5.3.18-150300.59.174.1.150300.18.103.1
kernel-rt SLE Micro 5.2, SLE Micro 5.1 5.3.18-150300.181.2

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2024:3249-1 SUSE-SU-2024:3225-1 SUSE-SU-2024:2947-1 SUSE-SU-2024:2940-1 SUSE-SU-2024:2939-1 SUSE-SU-2024:2929-1

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-2022-48811 updated 2026-11-05 cvss 5.5

kernel: ibmvnic: don't release napi in __ibmvnic_open()

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 Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more
not affected: vulnerable code not present

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 (2024-09-10)

Exploit prediction

0.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 19% 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

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

Technology feeds

Linux kernel rss critical rss

References

Sources

CVE List CVE-2022-48811
NVD CVE-2022-48811

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Summary