CVE-2022-48972

mac802154: fix missing INIT_LIST_HEAD in ieee802154_if_add()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Oct 21, 2024
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Aug 22, 2024

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Description

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

mac802154: fix missing INIT_LIST_HEAD in ieee802154_if_add()

Kernel fault injection test reports null-ptr-deref as follows:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008 RIP: 0010:cfg802154_netdev_notifier_call+0x120/0x310 include/linux/list.h:114 Call Trace: <TASK> raw_notifier_call_chain+0x6d/0xa0 kernel/notifier.c:87 call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0x6e/0xc0 net/core/dev.c:1944 unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0x60d/0xcb0 net/core/dev.c:1982 unregister_netdevice_queue+0x154/0x1a0 net/core/dev.c:10879 register_netdevice+0x9a8/0xb90 net/core/dev.c:10083 ieee802154_if_add+0x6ed/0x7e0 net/mac802154/iface.c:659 ieee802154_register_hw+0x29c/0x330 net/mac802154/main.c:229 mcr20a_probe+0xaaa/0xcb1 drivers/net/ieee802154/mcr20a.c:1316

ieee802154_if_add() allocates wpan_dev as netdev's private data, but not init the list in struct wpan_dev. cfg802154_netdev_notifier_call() manage the list when device register/unregister, and may lead to null-ptr-deref.

Use INIT_LIST_HEAD() on it to initialize it correctly.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • fcf39e6e88e9492f6688ec8ba4e1be622b904232 to before 7410f4d1221bb182510b7778ab6eefa8b9b7102dAffected
  • fcf39e6e88e9492f6688ec8ba4e1be622b904232 to before 9980a3ea20de40c83817877106c909cb032692d2Affected
  • fcf39e6e88e9492f6688ec8ba4e1be622b904232 to before f00c84fb1635c27ba24ec5df65d5bd7d7dc00008Affected
  • fcf39e6e88e9492f6688ec8ba4e1be622b904232 to before 1831d4540406708e48239cf38fd9c3b7ea98e08fAffected
  • fcf39e6e88e9492f6688ec8ba4e1be622b904232 to before 42c319635c0cf7eb36eccac6cda76532f47b61a3Affected
  • fcf39e6e88e9492f6688ec8ba4e1be622b904232 to before a110287ef4a423980309490df632e1c1e73b3dc9Affected
  • fcf39e6e88e9492f6688ec8ba4e1be622b904232 to before 623918f40fa68e3bb21312a3fafb90f491bf5358Affected
  • fcf39e6e88e9492f6688ec8ba4e1be622b904232 to before b3d72d3135d2ef68296c1ee174436efd65386f04Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 3.19Affected
  • before 3.19Not affected
  • 4.9.336 through 4.9.*Not affected
  • 4.14.302 through 4.14.*Not affected
  • 4.19.269 through 4.19.*Not affected
  • 5.4.227 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.159 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.83 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.0.13 through 6.0.*Not affected
  • 6.1 and laterNot affected

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