CVE-2022-48779 net: mscc: ocelot: fix use-after-free in ocelot_vlan_del()

What is CVE-2022-48779?

CVE-2022-48779 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 16 Jul 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: mscc: ocelot: fix use-after-free in ocelot_vlan_del()

ocelot_vlan_member_del() will free the struct ocelot_bridge_vlan, so if this is the same as the port's pvid_vlan which we access afterwards, what we're accessing is freed memory.

Fix the bug by determining whether to clear ocelot_port->pvid_vlan prior to calling ocelot_vlan_member_del().

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-48779?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2022-48779?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2022-48779 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-48779 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48779, GHSA-45vp-vx4c-9jr2, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48779.