{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-48870 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2022-48870 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 Aug 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2022-48870 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2022-48870 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 Aug 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-48870 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. 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.\n2. 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.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-48870/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-48870/index.md)","id":"CVE-2022-48870","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-48870/index.md","name":"CVE-2022-48870","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48870","GHSA-5hgq-f2qx-82g9","UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48870"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's speakup module allows local attackers to cause a system crash by removing the module after failed initialization.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-476","name":"NULL Pointer Dereference"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntty: fix possible null-ptr-defer in spk_ttyio_release\n\nRun the following tests on the qemu platform:\n\nsyzkaller:~# modprobe speakup_audptr\n input: Speakup as /devices/virtual/input/input4\n initialized device: /dev/synth, node (MAJOR 10, MINOR 125)\n speakup 3.1.6: initialized\n synth name on entry is: (null)\n synth probe\n\nspk_ttyio_initialise_ldisc failed because tty_kopen_exclusive returned\nfailed (errno -16), then remove the module, we will get a null-ptr-defer\nproblem, as follow:\n\nsyzkaller:~# modprobe -r speakup_audptr\n releasing synth audptr\n BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000080\n #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode\n #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page\n PGD 0 P4D 0\n Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI\n CPU: 2 PID: 204 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 6.1.0-rc6-dirty #1\n RIP: 0010:mutex_lock+0x14/0x30\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n  spk_ttyio_release+0x19/0x70 [speakup]\n  synth_release.part.6+0xac/0xc0 [speakup]\n  synth_remove+0x56/0x60 [speakup]\n  __x64_sys_delete_module+0x156/0x250\n  ? fpregs_assert_state_consistent+0x1d/0x50\n  do_syscall_64+0x37/0x90\n  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n Modules linked in: speakup_audptr(-) speakup\n Dumping ftrace buffer:\n\nin_synth-\u003edev was not initialized during modprobe, so we add check\nfor in_synth-\u003edev to fix this bug.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"tty: fix possible null-ptr-defer in spk_ttyio_release","id":"CVE-2022-48870","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2022"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"tty: serial: qcom-geni-serial: fix slab-out-of-bounds on RX FIFO buffer","id":"CVE-2022-48871"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"USB: gadgetfs: Fix race between mounting and unmounting","id":"CVE-2022-48869"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2024-08-21","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's speakup module allows local attackers to cause a system crash by removing the module after failed initialization.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-48870/"}