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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-48659

medium Nessus Plugin ID 225155

Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

 - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/slub: fix to return errno if kmalloc() fails In create_unique_id(), kmalloc(, GFP_KERNEL) can fail due to out-of-memory, if it fails, return errno correctly rather than triggering panic via BUG_ON(); kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:5893! Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Call trace: sysfs_slab_add+0x258/0x260 mm/slub.c:5973
 __kmem_cache_create+0x60/0x118 mm/slub.c:4899 create_cache mm/slab_common.c:229 [inline] kmem_cache_create_usercopy+0x19c/0x31c mm/slab_common.c:335 kmem_cache_create+0x1c/0x28 mm/slab_common.c:390 f2fs_kmem_cache_create fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:2766 [inline] f2fs_init_xattr_caches+0x78/0xb4 fs/f2fs/xattr.c:808 f2fs_fill_super+0x1050/0x1e0c fs/f2fs/super.c:4149 mount_bdev+0x1b8/0x210 fs/super.c:1400 f2fs_mount+0x44/0x58 fs/f2fs/super.c:4512 legacy_get_tree+0x30/0x74 fs/fs_context.c:610 vfs_get_tree+0x40/0x140 fs/super.c:1530 do_new_mount+0x1dc/0x4e4 fs/namespace.c:3040 path_mount+0x358/0x914 fs/namespace.c:3370 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3383 [inline] __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3591 [inline] __se_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3568 [inline] __arm64_sys_mount+0x2f8/0x408 fs/namespace.c:3568 (CVE-2022-48659)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 225155

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2022_48659.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/5/2025

Updated: 3/5/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-48659

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/21/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-48659