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AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV L H L N U H H H 7.0 .0024 16.0 —
AFFECTED Product Versions Fixed Linux 347c4a8747104a945ecced358944e42879176ca5 – — Linux 3.14 – 4.14.302
TIMELINE Aug 22 Reserved by Linux Oct 21 Published (CNA: Linux) Aug 4 RESCORED — CVE-2022-48988 (Linux). CVSS 7.8 → 7 (NVD).
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: memcg: fix possible use-after-free in memcg_write_event_control() memcg_write_event_control() accesses the dentry->d_name of the specified control fd to route the write call. As a cgroup interface file can't be renamed, it's safe to access d_name as long as the specified file is a regular cgroup file. Also, as these cgroup interface files can't be removed before the directory, it's safe to access the parent too. Prior to 347c4a874710 ("memcg: remove cgroup_event->cft"), there was a call to __file_cft() which verified that the specified file is a regular cgroupfs file before further accesses. The cftype pointer returned from __file_cft() was no longer necessary and the commit inadvertently dropped the file type check with it allowing any file to slip through. With the invarients broken, the d_name and parent accesses can now race against renames and removals of arbitrary files and cause use-after-free's. Fix the bug by resurrecting the file type check in __file_cft(). Now that cgroupfs is implemented through kernfs, checking the file operations needs to go through a layer of indirection. Instead, let's check the superblock and dentry type.
| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| August 22, 2024 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| October 21, 2024 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| August 4, 2026 | RESCORED | RESCORED — CVE-2022-48988 (Linux). CVSS 7.8 → 7 (NVD). |
Authoritative record: CVE-2022-48988 at cve.org
Vendors: linux
Weaknesses: CWE-416
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