CVE-2022-48782 (GCVE-0-2022-48782)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-16 11:13 – Updated: 2026-05-11 18:46
VLAI
Title
mctp: fix use after free
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mctp: fix use after free Clang static analysis reports this problem route.c:425:4: warning: Use of memory after it is freed trace_mctp_key_acquire(key); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When mctp_key_add() fails, key is freed but then is later used in trace_mctp_key_acquire(). Add an else statement to use the key only when mctp_key_add() is successful.
Severity
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SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 4f9e1ba6de45aa8797a83f1fe5b82ec4bac16899 , < 1dd3ecbec5f606b2a526c47925c8634b1a6bb81e (git)
Affected: 4f9e1ba6de45aa8797a83f1fe5b82ec4bac16899 , < 7e5b6a5c8c44310784c88c1c198dde79f6402f7b (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.16.11 , ≤ 5.16.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.17 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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