{"id":"CVE-2022-48867","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2022-48867","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T18:48:21.575Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: idxd: Prevent use after free on completion memory On driver unload any pending descriptors are flushed at the time the interrupt is freed: idxd_dmaengine_drv_remove() ->…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndmaengine: idxd: Prevent use after free on completion memory\n\nOn driver unload any pending descriptors are flushed at the\ntime the interrupt is freed:\nidxd_dmaengine_drv_remove() ->\n\tdrv_disable_wq() ->\n\t\tidxd_wq_free_irq() ->\n\t\t\tidxd_flush_pending_descs().\n\nIf there are any descriptors present that need to be flushed this\nflow triggers a \"not present\" page fault as below:\n\n BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ff391c97c70c9040\n #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode\n #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page\n\nThe address that triggers the fault is the address of the\ndescriptor that was freed moments earlier via:\ndrv_disable_wq()->idxd_wq_free_resources()\n\nFix the use after free by freeing the descriptors after any possible\nusage. This is done after idxd_wq_reset() to ensure that the memory\nremains accessible during possible completion writes by the device.","published":"2024-08-21T07:15:04.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T05:16:25.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-416"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00233,"percentile":0.14042,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.23%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1beeec45f9ac31eba52478379f70a5fa9c2ad005","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b9e8e3fcfec625fc1c2f68f684448aeeb882625b","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-48867","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}