# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-48870"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-08-21T06:10:00.678Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T18:48:45.319Z"
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-2022-48870"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-48870.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48870"
title: "tty: fix possible null-ptr-defer in spk_ttyio_release"
summary: "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."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4f2a81f3a88217e7340b2cab5c0a5ebd0112514c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2da67bff29ab49caafb0766e8b8383b735ff796f"},{"version":"4f2a81f3a88217e7340b2cab5c0a5ebd0112514c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"64152e05a4de3ebf59f1740a0985a6d5fba0c77b"},{"version":"4f2a81f3a88217e7340b2cab5c0a5ebd0112514c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5abbeebd8296c2301023b8dc4b5a6c0d5229b4f5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.12"},{"version":"5.15.90","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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