# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-48972"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-10-21T20:05:53.061Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T18:50:43.311Z"
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-2022-48972"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-48972.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48972"
title: "mac802154: fix missing INIT_LIST_HEAD in ieee802154_if_add()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmac802154: fix missing INIT_LIST_HEAD in ieee802154_if_add()\n\nKernel fault injection test reports null-ptr-deref as follows:\n\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008\nRIP: 0010:cfg802154_netdev_notifier_call+0x120/0x310 include/linux/list.h:114\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n raw_notifier_call_chain+0x6d/0xa0 kernel/notifier.c:87\n call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0x6e/0xc0 net/core/dev.c:1944\n unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0x60d/0xcb0 net/core/dev.c:1982\n unregister_netdevice_queue+0x154/0x1a0 net/core/dev.c:10879\n register_netdevice+0x9a8/0xb90 net/core/dev.c:10083\n ieee802154_if_add+0x6ed/0x7e0 net/mac802154/iface.c:659\n ieee802154_register_hw+0x29c/0x330 net/mac802154/main.c:229\n mcr20a_probe+0xaaa/0xcb1 drivers/net/ieee802154/mcr20a.c:1316\n\nieee802154_if_add() allocates wpan_dev as netdev's private data, but not\ninit the list in struct wpan_dev. cfg802154_netdev_notifier_call() manage\nthe list when device register/unregister, and may lead to null-ptr-deref.\n\nUse INIT_LIST_HEAD() on it to initialize it correctly."
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