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CVE-2022-48879

Published: Aug 21, 2024

Modified: May 23, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
2ff3c97b47521d6700cc6485c7935908dcd2c27c - < 585a0b2b3ae7903c6abee3087d09c69e955a7794
affected
5167f194da6947e19a3e970485ee3ccb44f7958d - < 5fcf75a8a4c3e7ee9122d143684083c9faf20452
affected
98086df8b70c06234a8f4290c46064e44dafa0ed - < 4ca71bc0e1995d15486cd7b60845602a28399cb5
affected
98086df8b70c06234a8f4290c46064e44dafa0ed - < e2ea55564229e4bea1474af15b111b3a3043b76f
affected
98086df8b70c06234a8f4290c46064e44dafa0ed - < adc96d30f6503d30dc68670c013716f1d9fcc747

+7 more versions

Linux

Linux

affected
5.9
unaffected
0 - < 5.9
unaffected
4.19.270 - <= 4.19.*
unaffected
5.4.229 - <= 5.4.*
unaffected
5.10.164 - <= 5.10.*

+3 more versions

References

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