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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-48983" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-10-21T20:06:00.376Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T18:50:56.049Z" 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-2022-48983" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-48983.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48983" title: "io_uring: Fix a null-ptr-deref in io_tctx_exit_cb()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nio_uring: Fix a null-ptr-deref in io_tctx_exit_cb()\n\nSyzkaller reports a NULL deref bug as follows:\n\n BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in io_tctx_exit_cb+0x53/0xd3\n Read of size 4 at addr 0000000000000138 by task file1/1955\n\n CPU: 1 PID: 1955 Comm: file1 Not tainted 6.1.0-rc7-00103-gef4d3ea40565 #75\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.11.0-2.el7 04/01/2014\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134\n ? io_tctx_exit_cb+0x53/0xd3\n kasan_report+0xbb/0x1f0\n ? io_tctx_exit_cb+0x53/0xd3\n kasan_check_range+0x140/0x190\n io_tctx_exit_cb+0x53/0xd3\n task_work_run+0x164/0x250\n ? task_work_cancel+0x30/0x30\n get_signal+0x1c3/0x2440\n ? lock_downgrade+0x6e0/0x6e0\n ? lock_downgrade+0x6e0/0x6e0\n ? exit_signals+0x8b0/0x8b0\n ? do_raw_read_unlock+0x3b/0x70\n ? do_raw_spin_unlock+0x50/0x230\n arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x82/0x2470\n ? kmem_cache_free+0x260/0x4b0\n ? putname+0xfe/0x140\n ? get_sigframe_size+0x10/0x10\n ? do_execveat_common.isra.0+0x226/0x710\n ? lockdep_hardirqs_on+0x79/0x100\n ? putname+0xfe/0x140\n ? do_execveat_common.isra.0+0x238/0x710\n exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x15f/0x250\n syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x19/0x50\n do_syscall_64+0x42/0xb0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n RIP: 0023:0x0\n Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xffffffffffffffd6.\n RSP: 002b:00000000fffb7790 EFLAGS: 00000200 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000000b\n RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000\n RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000\n RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000\n R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000\n R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n Kernel panic - not syncing: panic_on_warn set ...\n\nThis happens because the adding of task_work from io_ring_exit_work()\nisn't synchronized with canceling all work items from eg exec. The\nexecution of the two are ordered in that they are both run by the task\nitself, but if io_tctx_exit_cb() is queued while we're canceling all\nwork items off exec AND gets executed when the task exits to userspace\nrather than in the main loop in io_uring_cancel_generic(), then we can\nfind current-\u003eio_uring == NULL and hit the above crash.\n\nIt's safe to add this NULL check here, because the execution of the two\npaths are done by the task itself.\n\n[axboe: add code comment and also put an explanation in the commit msg]" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"d56d938b4bef3e1421a42023cdcd6e13c1f50831","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f895511de9d27fff71dad2c234ad53b4afd2b06c"},{"version":"d56d938b4bef3e1421a42023cdcd6e13c1f50831","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d91edca1943453aaaba4f380f6f364346222e5cf"},{"version":"d56d938b4bef3e1421a42023cdcd6e13c1f50831","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"998b30c3948e4d0b1097e639918c5cff332acac5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.12"},{"version":"5.15.83","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.0.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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