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TI-2022-24172 Aliases CVE-2022-48640GHSA-h8ph-3hgg-3hxc

bonding: fix NULL deref in bond_rr_gen_slave_id

Priority LOW 24CWE-476Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Local
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · None · High
Fix status
Partial Red Hat: 4 without a fix

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-476.

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bonding: fix NULL deref in bond_rr_gen_slave_id Fix a NULL dereference of the struct bonding.rr_tx_counter member because if a bond is initially created with an initial mode != zero (Round Robin) the memory required for the counter is never created and when the mode is changed there is never any attempt to verify the memory is allocated upon switching modes. This causes the following Oops on an aarch64 machine: [ 334.686773] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffff2c91ac905000 [ 334.694703] Mem abort info: [ 334.697486] ESR = 0x0000000096000004 [ 334.701234] EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits [ 334.706536] SET = 0, FnV = 0 [ 334.709579] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0 [ 334.712719] FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault [ 334.717586] Data abort info: [ 334.720454] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004 [ 334.724288] CM = 0, WnR = 0 [ 334.727244] swapper pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=000008044d662000 [ 334.733944] [ffff2c91ac905000] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000 [ 334.740734] Internal error: Oops: 96000004 [#1] SMP [ 334.745602] Modules linked in: bonding tls veth rfkill sunrpc arm_spe_pmu vfat fat acpi_ipmi ipmi_ssif ixgbe igb i40e mdio ipmi_devintf ipmi_msghandler arm_cmn arm_dsu_pmu cppc_cpufreq acpi_tad fuse zram crct10dif_ce ast ghash_ce sbsa_gwdt nvme drm_vram_helper drm_ttm_helper nvme_core ttm xgene_hwmon [ 334.772217] CPU: 7 PID: 2214 Comm: ping Not tainted 6.0.0-rc4-00133-g64ae13ed4784 #4 [ 334.779950] Hardware name: GIGABYTE R272-P31-00/MP32-AR1-00, BIOS F18v (SCP: 1.08.20211002) 12/01/2021 [ 334.789244] pstate: 60400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) [ 334.796196] pc : bond_rr_gen_slave_id+0x40/0x124 [bonding] [ 334.801691] lr : bond_xmit_roundrobin_slave_get+0x38/0xdc [bonding] [ 334.807962] sp : ffff8000221733e0 [ 334.811265] x29: ffff8000221733e0 x28: ffffdbac8572d198 x27: ffff80002217357c [ 334.818392] x26: 000000000000002a x25: ffffdbacb33ee000 x24: ffff07ff980fa000 [ 334.825519] x23: ffffdbacb2e398ba x22: ffff07ff98102000 x21: ffff07ff981029c0 [ 334.832646] x20: 0000000000000001 x19: ffff07ff981029c0 x18: 0000000000000014 [ 334.839773] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: ffffdbacb1004364 x15: 0000aaaabe2f5a62 [ 334.846899] x14: ffff07ff8e55d968 x13: ffff07ff8e55db30 x12: 0000000000000000 [ 334.854026] x11: ffffdbacb21532e8 x10: 0000000000000001 x9 : ffffdbac857178ec [ 334.861153] x8 : ffff07ff9f6e5a28 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 000000007c2b3742 [ 334.868279] x5 : ffff2c91ac905000 x4 : ffff2c91ac905000 x3 : ffff07ff9f554400 [ 334.875406] x2 : ffff2c91ac905000 x1 : 0000000000000001 x0 : ffff07ff981029c0 [ 334.882532] Call trace: [ 334.884967] bond_rr_gen_slave_id+0x40/0x124 [bonding] [ 334.890109] bond_xmit_roundrobin_slave_get+0x38/0xdc [bonding] [ 334.896033] __bond_start_xmit+0x128/0x3a0 [bonding] [ 334.901001] bond_start_xmit+0x54/0xb0 [bonding] [ 334.905622] dev_hard_start_xmit+0xb4/0x220 [ 334.909798] __dev_queue_xmit+0x1a0/0x720 [ 334.913799] arp_xmit+0x3c/0xbc [ 334.916932] arp_send_dst+0x98/0xd0 [ 334.920410] arp_solicit+0xe8/0x230 [ 334.923888] neigh_probe+0x60/0xb0 [ 334.927279] __neigh_event_send+0x3b0/0x470 [ 334.931453] neigh_resolve_output+0x70/0x90 [ 334.935626] ip_finish_output2+0x158/0x514 [ 334.939714] __ip_finish_output+0xac/0x1a4 [ 334.943800] ip_finish_output+0x40/0xfc [ 334.947626] ip_output+0xf8/0x1a4 [ 334.950931] ip_send_skb+0x5c/0x100 [ 334.954410] ip_push_pending_frames+0x3c/0x60 [ 334.958758] raw_sendmsg+0x458/0x6d0 [ 334.962325] inet_sendmsg+0x50/0x80 [ 334.965805] sock_sendmsg+0x60/0x6c [ 334.969286] __sys_sendto+0xc8/0x134 [ 334.972853] __arm64_sys_sendto+0x34/0x4c ---truncated---

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00232 14th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Partial Linux (Linux): 5.15.71, 5.19.12, 6.0Red Hat: 4 without a fix

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
LinuxLinux5.14 and later5.15.71, 5.19.12, 6.0Patch availableCNA
  • Linux VendorLinux Affected 5.14 and later Fixed in 5.15.71, 5.19.12, 6.0 Patch available CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 7

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*5.14 to before 5.15.71; 5.16 to before 5.19.12VulnerableLinux
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*6.0 rc1VulnerableLinux
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*6.0 rc2VulnerableLinux
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*6.0 rc3VulnerableLinux
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*6.0 rc4VulnerableLinux
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*6.0 rc5VulnerableLinux
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*6.0 rc6VulnerableLinux
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 5.14 to before 5.15.71; 5.16 to before 5.19.12 Vulnerable ·Linux
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 6.0 rc1 Vulnerable ·Linux
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 6.0 rc2 Vulnerable ·Linux
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 6.0 rc3 Vulnerable ·Linux
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 6.0 rc4 Vulnerable ·Linux
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 6.0 rc5 Vulnerable ·Linux
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 6.0 rc6 Vulnerable ·Linux

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.15.71, 5.19.12, 6.0

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Low. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

ProductStatusPlan or fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6AffectedNo fix planned: Out of support scope
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7AffectedNo fix planned: Out of support scope
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8AffectedNo fix yet
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9AffectedNo fix yet
Not affected: 1 product
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2022-48640
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-h8ph-3hgg-3hxc

References

Patch 3

  • TI-2025-26358 tls: fix handling of zero-length records on the rx_list KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2026-38352 netfilter: bridge: make ebt_snat ARP rewrite writable KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2013-05264 The (1) get_user and (2) put_user API functions in the Linux kernel before 3.5.5 on the… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2022-00125 Integer overflow in kernel KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.4
  • TI-2013-01864 The perf_swevent_init function in kernel/events/core.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.9… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.4
  • TI-2021-05514 Heap Out-Of-Bounds Write in Netfilter IP6T_SO_SET_REPLACE KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.3
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Sources

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