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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-48801"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-07-16T11:43:54.253Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:52:26.711Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:45.230Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-48801"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-48801.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48801"
title: "iio: buffer: Fix file related error handling in IIO_BUFFER_GET_FD_IOCTL"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\niio: buffer: Fix file related error handling in IIO_BUFFER_GET_FD_IOCTL\n\nIf we fail to copy the just created file descriptor to userland, we\ntry to clean up by putting back 'fd' and freeing 'ib'. The code uses\nput_unused_fd() for the former which is wrong, as the file descriptor\nwas already published by fd_install() which gets called internally by\nanon_inode_getfd().\n\nThis makes the error handling code leaving a half cleaned up file\ndescriptor table around and a partially destructed 'file' object,\nallowing userland to play use-after-free tricks on us, by abusing\nthe still usable fd and making the code operate on a dangling\n'file-\u003eprivate_data' pointer.\n\nInstead of leaving the kernel in a partially corrupted state, don't\nattempt to explicitly clean up and leave this to the process exit\npath that'll release any still valid fds, including the one created\nby the previous call to anon_inode_getfd(). Simply return -EFAULT to\nindicate the error."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f73f7f4da581875f9b1f2fb8ebd1ab15ed634488","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b7f54894aa7517d2b6c797a499b9f491e9db9083"},{"version":"f73f7f4da581875f9b1f2fb8ebd1ab15ed634488","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"202071d2518537866d291aa7cf26af54e674f4d4"},{"version":"f73f7f4da581875f9b1f2fb8ebd1ab15ed634488","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c72ea20503610a4a7ba26c769357d31602769c01"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.13"},{"version":"5.15.24","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.16.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.16.*"},{"version":"5.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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