CVE-2022-23090 (GCVE-0-2022-23090)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-02-15 05:09 – Updated: 2025-03-28 23:57
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
AIO credential reference count leak
Summary
The aio_aqueue function, used by the lio_listio system call, fails to release a reference to a credential in an error case.
An attacker may cause the reference count to overflow, leading to a use after free (UAF).
Severity
7.7 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-02-21 17:10 UTC
CWE
- CWE-416 - Use After Free
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-S… | vendor-advisory |
| https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2024041… |
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FreeBSD | FreeBSD |
Affected:
13.1-RELEASE , < p1
(release)
Affected: 13.0-RELEASE , < p12 (release) Affected: 12.3-RELEASE , < p6 (release) |
guessed | |
| freebsd | freebsd |
Affected:
13.0 , < 13.0_p12
(custom)
Affected: 13.1 , < 13.1_p1 (custom) cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Date Public
2022-08-09 23:00
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"dateReserved": "2022-01-10T22:07:46.041Z",
"dateUpdated": "2025-03-28T23:57:52.965Z",
"state": "PUBLISHED"
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}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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