CVE-2022-48832

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: audit: don't deref the syscall args when checking the openat2 open_how::flags As reported by Jeff, dereferencing the openat2 syscall argument in audit_match_perm() to obtain the open_how::flags can result in an oops/page-fault. This patch fixes this by using the open_how struct that we store in the audit_context with audit_openat2_how(). Independent of this patch, Richard Guy Briggs posted a similar patch to the audit mailing list roughly 40 minutes after this patch was posted.

The following products are affected by CVE-2022-48832 vulnerability.

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2022-48832.

URL	Resource
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/310c9ddfdf1f8d3c9834f02175eae79c8b254b6c
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a82f89de92aac5a244d3735b2bd162c1147620c
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024071653-CVE-2022-48832-1322@gregkh/T
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-48832
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48832