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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-48984"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-10-21T20:06:01.083Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T18:50:57.244Z"
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-2022-48984"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-48984.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48984"
title: "can: slcan: fix freed work crash"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncan: slcan: fix freed work crash\n\nThe LTP test pty03 is causing a crash in slcan:\n  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008\n  #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode\n  #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page\n  PGD 0 P4D 0\n  Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI\n  CPU: 0 PID: 348 Comm: kworker/0:3 Not tainted 6.0.8-1-default #1 openSUSE Tumbleweed 9d20364b934f5aab0a9bdf84e8f45cfdfae39dab\n  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.15.0-0-g2dd4b9b-rebuilt.opensuse.org 04/01/2014\n  Workqueue:  0x0 (events)\n  RIP: 0010:process_one_work (/home/rich/kernel/linux/kernel/workqueue.c:706 /home/rich/kernel/linux/kernel/workqueue.c:2185)\n  Code: 49 89 ff 41 56 41 55 41 54 55 53 48 89 f3 48 83 ec 10 48 8b 06 48 8b 6f 48 49 89 c4 45 30 e4 a8 04 b8 00 00 00 00 4c 0f 44 e0 \u003c49\u003e 8b 44 24 08 44 8b a8 00 01 00 00 41 83 e5 20 f6 45 10 04 75 0e\n  RSP: 0018:ffffaf7b40f47e98 EFLAGS: 00010046\n  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9d644e1b8b48 RCX: ffff9d649e439968\n  RDX: 00000000ffff8455 RSI: ffff9d644e1b8b48 RDI: ffff9d64764aa6c0\n  RBP: ffff9d649e4335c0 R08: 0000000000000c00 R09: ffff9d64764aa734\n  R10: 0000000000000007 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000000\n  R13: ffff9d649e4335e8 R14: ffff9d64490da780 R15: ffff9d64764aa6c0\n  FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9d649e400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n  CR2: 0000000000000008 CR3: 0000000036424000 CR4: 00000000000006f0\n  Call Trace:\n   \u003cTASK\u003e\n  worker_thread (/home/rich/kernel/linux/kernel/workqueue.c:2436)\n  kthread (/home/rich/kernel/linux/kernel/kthread.c:376)\n  ret_from_fork (/home/rich/kernel/linux/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:312)\n\nApparently, the slcan's tx_work is freed while being scheduled. While\nslcan_netdev_close() (netdev side) calls flush_work(&sl-\u003etx_work),\nslcan_close() (tty side) does not. So when the netdev is never set UP,\nbut the tty is stuffed with bytes and forced to wakeup write, the work\nis scheduled, but never flushed.\n\nSo add an additional flush_work() to slcan_close() to be sure the work\nis flushed under all circumstances.\n\nThe Fixes commit below moved flush_work() from slcan_close() to\nslcan_netdev_close(). What was the rationale behind it? Maybe we can\ndrop the one in slcan_netdev_close()?\n\nI see the same pattern in can327. So it perhaps needs the very same fix."
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