FKIE_CVE-2022-48832

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-07-16 12:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 05:16
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: audit: don't deref the syscall args when checking the openat2 open_how::flags As reported by Jeff, dereferencing the openat2 syscall argument in audit_match_perm() to obtain the open_how::flags can result in an oops/page-fault. This patch fixes this by using the open_how struct that we store in the audit_context with audit_openat2_how(). Independent of this patch, Richard Guy Briggs posted a similar patch to the audit mailing list roughly 40 minutes after this patch was posted.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/310c9ddfdf1f8d3c9834f02175eae79c8b254b6cPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a82f89de92aac5a244d3735b2bd162c1147620cPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/310c9ddfdf1f8d3c9834f02175eae79c8b254b6cPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a82f89de92aac5a244d3735b2bd162c1147620cPatch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel 5.17
linux linux_kernel 5.17
linux linux_kernel 5.17
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