What is CVE-2022-48773?

CVE-2022-48773 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2024-07-16.

How severe is CVE-2022-48773?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

NULL pointer dereference in Linux

CVE-2022-48773

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xprtrdma: fix pointer derefs in error cases of rpcrdma_ep_create If there are failures then we must not leave the non-NULL pointers with the error value, otherwise `rpcrdma_ep_destroy` gets confused and tries free them, resulting in an Oops.

EPSS: 0.003 (16.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Linux — versions 85cd8e2b78eea7374927750ffec60bf047f8f90b, 5.7, 0
Linux Linux_kernel

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

References

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch, Mailing List)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch, Mailing List)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch, Mailing List)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch, Mailing List)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-48773?: CVE-2022-48773 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2024-07-16.
How severe is CVE-2022-48773?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.