CVE-2022-48861

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vdpa: fix use-after-free on vp_vdpa_remove When vp_vdpa driver is unbind, vp_vdpa is freed in vdpa_unregister_device and then vp_vdpa->mdev.pci_dev is dereferenced in vp_modern_remove, triggering use-after-free. Call Trace of unbinding driver free vp_vdpa : do_syscall_64 vfs_write kernfs_fop_write_iter device_release_driver_internal pci_device_remove vp_vdpa_remove vdpa_unregister_device kobject_release device_release kfree Call Trace of dereference vp_vdpa->mdev.pci_dev: vp_modern_remove pci_release_selected_regions pci_release_region pci_resource_len pci_resource_end (dev)->resource[(bar)].end

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
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Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`5.16.18-1`
sid	Fixed	`5.16.18-1`
forky	Fixed	`5.16.18-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`0`
bookworm	Fixed	`5.16.18-1`

References

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