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Tracker / CVE-2022-48879

CVE-2022-48879

Medium 5.5

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.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · 4.19.142 → 4.19.270
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.89
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.7
linux linux_kernel · 5.4.61 → 5.4.229
linux linux_kernel · 5.9 → 5.10.164

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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