Linux Kernel up to 5.15.67/5.19.8 erofs erofs_workgroup_unfreeze use after free

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in Linux Kernel up to 5.15.67/5.19.8. This vulnerability affects the function erofs_workgroup_unfreeze of the component erofs. Executing a manipulation can lead to use after free. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2022-48674. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability has been found in Linux Kernel up to 5.15.67/5.19.8 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects the function erofs_workgroup_unfreeze of the component erofs. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a use after free vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-416. Referencing memory after it has been freed can cause a program to crash, use unexpected values, or execute code. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: erofs: fix pcluster use-after-free on UP platforms During stress testing with CONFIG_SMP disabled, KASAN reports as below: ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __mutex_lock+0xe5/0xc30 Read of size 8 at addr ffff8881094223f8 by task stress/7789 CPU: 0 PID: 7789 Comm: stress Not tainted 6.0.0-rc1-00002-g0d53d2e882f9 #3 Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 0.5.1 01/01/2011 Call Trace: .. __mutex_lock+0xe5/0xc30 .. z_erofs_do_read_page+0x8ce/0x1560 .. z_erofs_readahead+0x31c/0x580 .. Freed by task 7787 kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40 kasan_set_track+0x20/0x30 kasan_set_free_info+0x20/0x40 __kasan_slab_free+0x10c/0x190 kmem_cache_free+0xed/0x380 rcu_core+0x3d5/0xc90 __do_softirq+0x12d/0x389 Last potentially related work creation: kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40 __kasan_record_aux_stack+0x97/0xb0 call_rcu+0x3d/0x3f0 erofs_shrink_workstation+0x11f/0x210 erofs_shrink_scan+0xdc/0x170 shrink_slab.constprop.0+0x296/0x530 drop_slab+0x1c/0x70 drop_caches_sysctl_handler+0x70/0x80 proc_sys_call_handler+0x20a/0x2f0 vfs_write+0x555/0x6c0 ksys_write+0xbe/0x160 do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 The root cause is that erofs_workgroup_unfreeze() doesn't reset to orig_val thus it causes a race that the pcluster reuses unexpectedly before freeing. Since UP platforms are quite rare now, such path becomes unnecessary. Let's drop such specific-designed path directly instead.

The advisory is available at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability was named CVE-2022-48674 since 02/25/2024. The exploitation appears to be difficult. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/29/2025).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 214888 (CentOS 9 : kernel-5.14.0-559.el9), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 5.15.68, 5.19.9 or 6.0 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 8ddd001cef5e/94c34faaafe7/2f44013e3998 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at git.kernel.org. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (214888) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2024-1025). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

Affected

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Ubuntu Linux
• SUSE Linux
• Oracle Linux
• EMC Avamar
• Broadcom Brocade SANnav
• Dell NetWorker
• Open Source Linux Kernel

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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 5.15.0
• 5.15.1
• 5.15.2
• 5.15.3
• 5.15.4
• 5.15.5
• 5.15.6
• 5.15.7
• 5.15.8
• 5.15.9
• 5.15.10
• 5.15.11
• 5.15.12
• 5.15.13
• 5.15.14
• 5.15.15
• 5.15.16
• 5.15.17
• 5.15.18
• 5.15.19
• 5.15.20
• 5.15.21
• 5.15.22
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• 5.15.24
• 5.15.25
• 5.15.26
• 5.15.27
• 5.15.28
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• 5.15.30
• 5.15.31
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• 5.15.33
• 5.15.34
• 5.15.35
• 5.15.36
• 5.15.37
• 5.15.38
• 5.15.39
• 5.15.40
• 5.15.41
• 5.15.42
• 5.15.43
• 5.15.44
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• 5.15.46
• 5.15.47
• 5.15.48
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• 5.15.50
• 5.15.51
• 5.15.52
• 5.15.53
• 5.15.54
• 5.15.55
• 5.15.56
• 5.15.57
• 5.15.58
• 5.15.59
• 5.15.60
• 5.15.61
• 5.15.62
• 5.15.63
• 5.15.64
• 5.15.65
• 5.15.66
• 5.15.67
• 5.19.0
• 5.19.1
• 5.19.2
• 5.19.3
• 5.19.4
• 5.19.5
• 5.19.6
• 5.19.7
• 5.19.8

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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