CVE-2022-48722: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ieee802154: ca8210: Stop leaking skb's Upon error the ieee802154_xmit_complete() helper is not called. Only ieee802154_wake_queue() is called manually. We then leak the skb structure. Free the skb structure upon error before returning.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.12, before 4.14.265 (fixed in 4.14.265); from 4.15, before 4.19.228 (fixed in 4.19.228); from 4.20, before 5.4.178 (fixed in 5.4.178); from 5.5, before 5.10.99 (fixed in 5.10.99); from 5.11, before 5.15.22 (fixed in 5.15.22); from 5.16, before 5.16.8 (fixed in 5.16.8); …

Published 2024-06-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.