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CVE-2022-48988

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Record status
Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2022
Source publication
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cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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CNA source text (English)

memcg: fix possible use-after-free in memcg_write_event_control()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: memcg: fix possible use-after-free in memcg_write_event_control() memcg_write_event_control() accesses the dentry->d_name of the specified control fd to route the write call. As a cgroup interface file can't be renamed, it's safe to access d_name as long as the specified file is a regular cgroup file. Also, as these cgroup interface files can't be removed before the directory, it's safe to access the parent too. Prior to 347c4a874710 ("memcg: remove cgroup_event->cft"), there was a call to __file_cft() which verified that the specified file is a regular cgroupfs file before further accesses. The cftype pointer returned from __file_cft() was no longer necessary and the commit inadvertently dropped the file type check with it allowing any file to slip through. With the invarients broken, the d_name and parent accesses can now race against renames and removals of arbitrary files and cause use-after-free's. Fix the bug by resurrecting the file type check in __file_cft(). Now that cgroupfs is implemented through kernfs, checking the file operations needs to go through a layer of indirection. Instead, let's check the superblock and dentry type.

Scoped product and version facts

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.

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
unaffected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
347c4a8747104a945ecced358944e42879176ca5affectedgitb77600e26fd48727a95ffd50ba1e937efb548125UnavailableNone listed
347c4a8747104a945ecced358944e42879176ca5affectedgite1ae97624ecf400ea56c238bff23e5cd139df0b8UnavailableNone listed
347c4a8747104a945ecced358944e42879176ca5affectedgit35963b31821920908e397146502066f6b032c917UnavailableNone listed
347c4a8747104a945ecced358944e42879176ca5affectedgitf1f7f36cf682fa59db15e2089039a2eeb58ff2adUnavailableNone listed
347c4a8747104a945ecced358944e42879176ca5affectedgitaad8bbd17a1d586005feb9226c2e9cfce1432e13UnavailableNone listed
347c4a8747104a945ecced358944e42879176ca5affectedgit0ed074317b835caa6c03bcfa8f133365324673dcUnavailableNone listed
347c4a8747104a945ecced358944e42879176ca5affectedgit4a7ba45b1a435e7097ca0f79a847d0949d0eb088UnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
3.14affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver3.14UnavailableNone listed
4.14.302unaffectedsemverUnavailable4.14.*None listed
4.19.269unaffectedsemverUnavailable4.19.*None listed
5.4.227unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.4.*None listed
5.10.159unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.10.*None listed
5.15.83unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.15.*None listed
6.0.13unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.0.*None listed
6.1unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed