CVE-2022-48735: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: hda: Fix UAF of leds class devs at unbinding The LED class devices that are created by HD-audio codec drivers are registered via devm_led_classdev_register() and associated with the HD-audio codec device. Unfortunately, it turned out that the devres release doesn't work for this case; namely, since the codec resource release happens before the devm call chain, it triggers a NULL dereference or a UAF for a stale set_brightness_delay callback. For fixing the bug, this patch changes the LED class device register and unregister in a manual manner without devres, keeping the instances in hda_gen_spec.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.9, 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); version 5.17 only

Published 2024-06-20. Last modified 2026-08-04.