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CVE-2022-48879 Design/Logic Flaw

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CVE Information

Original CVE data

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: efi: fix NULL-deref in init error path In cases where runtime services are not supported or have been disabled, the runtime services workqueue will never have been allocated. Do not try to destroy the workqueue unconditionally in the unlikely event that EFI initialisation fails to avoid dereferencing a NULL pointer.

CWE: CWE-476
CVSS v2-
CVSS v35.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/585a0b2b3ae7903c6abee3087d09c69e955a7794
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5fcf75a8a4c3e7ee9122d143684083c9faf20452
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ca71bc0e1995d15486cd7b60845602a28399cb5
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e2ea55564229e4bea1474af15b111b3a3043b76f
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/adc96d30f6503d30dc68670c013716f1d9fcc747
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/703c13fe3c9af557d312f5895ed6a5fda2711104
Affected Vendors

Linux - (1)

Basic Analysis

Common vulnerability metrics

Vulnerabilty type as detected by PRIOnengine

Design/Logic Flaw

CVSS Scores as calculated by PRIOnengine
CVSS v25
AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS v35.5
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
MITRE CWE Top 25

Vulnerability weakness type is in the top 25 CWEs according to MITRE. View Mitre Top 25 CWEs

Exploits

No exploit code is reported to exist.

Active Exploitation

Vulnerability is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. See the KEV Catalog

Social Network Activity

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Threat Actor Activity

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Cybersecurity Frameworks

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Compliance Impact

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Web Application Security Frameworks

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