CVE-2022-50148

high
Published 2023-05-09 ยท Modified 2023-11-14
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.0

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kernfs: fix potential NULL dereference in __kernfs_remove When lockdep is enabled, lockdep_assert_held_write would cause potential NULL pointer dereference. Fix the following smatch warnings: fs/kernfs/dir.c:1353 __kernfs_remove() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'kn' (see line 1346)

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
โ€” Affected โ€”
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 6.0.2-1
sid Fixed 6.0.2-1
forky Fixed 6.0.2-1
bullseye Fixed 0
bookworm Fixed 6.0.2-1
redhat Red Hat Fixed 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
9 Fixed โ€”
8 Fixed โ€”

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.