CVE-2022-48911: 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: netfilter: nf_queue: fix possible use-after-free Eric Dumazet says: The sock_hold() side seems suspect, because there is no guarantee that sk_refcnt is not already 0. On failure, we cannot queue the packet and need to indicate an error. The packet will be dropped by the caller. v2: split skb prefetch hunk into separate change

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 2.6.29, before 4.9.305 (fixed in 4.9.305); from 4.10, before 4.14.270 (fixed in 4.14.270); from 4.15, before 4.19.233 (fixed in 4.19.233); from 4.20, before 5.4.183 (fixed in 5.4.183); from 5.5, before 5.10.104 (fixed in 5.10.104); from 5.11, before 5.15.27 (fixed in 5.15.27); …

Published 2024-08-22. Last modified 2026-08-04.