# CVE-2022-48810: ipmr,ip6mr: acquire RTNL before calling ip[6]mr_free_table() on failure path

> A missing RTNL lock in the Linux kernel IP multicast routing failure path can cause a kernel assertion failure and system crash.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 16 Jul 2024
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48810, GHSA-g9jr-cm69-rqc6, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48810

## What is CVE-2022-48810?

CVE-2022-48810 is a medium-severity 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:

ipmr,ip6mr: acquire RTNL before calling ip[6]mr_free_table() on failure path

ip[6]mr_free_table() can only be called under RTNL lock.

RTNL: assertion failed at net/core/dev.c (10367)
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 5890 at net/core/dev.c:10367 unregister_netdevice_many+0x1246/0x1850 net/core/dev.c:10367
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 5890 Comm: syz-executor.2 Not tainted 5.16.0-syzkaller-11627-g422ee58dc0ef #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
RIP: 0010:unregister_netdevice_many+0x1246/0x1850 net/core/dev.c:10367
Code: 0f 85 9b ee ff ff e8 69 07 4b fa ba 7f 28 00 00 48 c7 c6 00 90 ae 8a 48 c7 c7 40 90 ae 8a c6 05 6d b1 51 06 01 e8 8c 90 d8 01 <0f> 0b e9 70 ee ff ff e8 3e 07 4b fa 4c 89 e7 e8 86 2a 59 fa e9 ee
RSP: 0018:ffffc900046ff6e0 EFLAGS: 00010286
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffff888050f51d00 RSI: ffffffff815fa008 RDI: fffff520008dfece
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffffff815f3d6e R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 00000000fffffff4
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffffc900046ff750 R15: ffff88807b7dc000
FS:  00007f4ab736e700(0000) GS:ffff8880b9d00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fee0b4f8990 CR3: 000000001e7d2000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 mroute_clean_tables+0x244/0xb40 net/ipv6/ip6mr.c:1509
 ip6mr_free_table net/ipv6/ip6mr.c:389 [inline]
 ip6mr_rules_init net/ipv6/ip6mr.c:246 [inline]
 ip6mr_net_init net/ipv6/ip6mr.c:1306 [inline]
 ip6mr_net_init+0x3f0/0x4e0 net/ipv6/ip6mr.c:1298
 ops_init+0xaf/0x470 net/core/net_namespace.c:140
 setup_net+0x54f/0xbb0 net/core/net_namespace.c:331
 copy_net_ns+0x318/0x760 net/core/net_namespace.c:475
 create_new_namespaces+0x3f6/0xb20 kernel/nsproxy.c:110
 copy_namespaces+0x391/0x450 kernel/nsproxy.c:178
 copy_process+0x2e0c/0x7300 kernel/fork.c:2167
 kernel_clone+0xe7/0xab0 kernel/fork.c:2555
 __do_sys_clone+0xc8/0x110 kernel/fork.c:2672
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
RIP: 0033:0x7f4ab89f9059
Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at RIP 0x7f4ab89f902f.
RSP: 002b:00007f4ab736e118 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000038
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f4ab8b0bf60 RCX: 00007f4ab89f9059
RDX: 0000000020000280 RSI: 0000000020000270 RDI: 0000000040200000
RBP: 00007f4ab8a5308d R08: 0000000020000300 R09: 0000000020000300
R10: 00000000200002c0 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007ffc3977cc1f R14: 00007f4ab736e300 R15: 0000000000022000
 </TASK>

Weakness: CWE-667 (Improper Locking)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-48810?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-48810?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2022-48810 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-48810 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-48810 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-48810 is a medium-severity 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-48810 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-48810/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-48810/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48810
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-48810
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-48810

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