CVE-2022-48638 (GCVE-0-2022-48638)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-04-28 12:59 – Updated: 2025-05-04 08:20
VLAI?
Title
cgroup: cgroup_get_from_id() must check the looked-up kn is a directory
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cgroup: cgroup_get_from_id() must check the looked-up kn is a directory cgroup has to be one kernfs dir, otherwise kernel panic is caused, especially cgroup id is provide from userspace.
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 6b658c4863c15936872a93c9ee879043bf6393c9 , < 8484a356cee8ce3d6a8e6266ff99be326e9273ad (git)
Affected: 6b658c4863c15936872a93c9ee879043bf6393c9 , < 1e9571887f97b17cf3ffe9aa4da89090ea60988b (git)
Affected: 6b658c4863c15936872a93c9ee879043bf6393c9 , < df02452f3df069a59bc9e69c84435bf115cb6e37 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 5.14
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.14 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.72 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.19.12 , ≤ 5.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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