Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-48764

medium Nessus Plugin ID 225621

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: KVM: x86: Free kvm_cpuid_entry2 array on post-KVM_RUN KVM_SET_CPUID{,2} Free the struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 array on successful post-KVM_RUN KVM_SET_CPUID{,2} to fix a memory leak, the callers of kvm_set_cpuid() free the array only on failure.
BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff88810963a800 (size 2048): comm syz-executor025, pid 3610, jiffies 4294944928 (age 8.080s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0d 00 00 00 ................ 47 65 6e 75 6e 74 65 6c 69 6e 65 49 00 00 00 00 GenuntelineI.... backtrace:
[<ffffffff814948ee>] kmalloc_node include/linux/slab.h:604 [inline] [<ffffffff814948ee>] kvmalloc_node+0x3e/0x100 mm/util.c:580 [<ffffffff814950f2>] kvmalloc include/linux/slab.h:732 [inline] [<ffffffff814950f2>] vmemdup_user+0x22/0x100 mm/util.c:199 [<ffffffff8109f5ff>] kvm_vcpu_ioctl_set_cpuid2+0x8f/0xf0 arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c:423 [<ffffffff810711b9>] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl+0xb99/0x1e60 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:5251 [<ffffffff8103e92d>] kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x4ad/0x950 arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:4066 [<ffffffff815afacc>] vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline] [<ffffffff815afacc>] __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:874 [inline] [<ffffffff815afacc>] __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:860 [inline] [<ffffffff815afacc>] __x64_sys_ioctl+0xfc/0x140 fs/ioctl.c:860 [<ffffffff844a3335>] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] [<ffffffff844a3335>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 [<ffffffff84600068>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae (CVE-2022-48764)

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: 225621

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2022_48764.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: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-48764

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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: 6/20/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-48764

Detections

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