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Unscored CVE-2022-48640 EUVD-2022-51335GHSA-h8ph-3hgg-3hxc

bonding: fix NULL deref in bond_rr_gen_slave_id

Published Apr 28, 2024 · Updated May 11, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

Vendor: Linux Product: Linux Package: linux Package: linux Package: linux-allwinner-5.19 Package: linux-aws Package: linux-aws-5.0 Package: linux-aws-5.11 Package: linux-aws-5.13 Package: linux-aws-5.15 Package: linux-aws-5.19 Package: linux-aws-5.3 Package: linux-aws-5.8 Package: linux-aws-6.2 Package: linux-azure Package: linux-azure-5.11 Package: linux-azure-5.13 Package: linux-azure-5.15 Package: linux-azure-5.19 Package: linux-azure-5.3 Package: linux-azure-5.8 Package: linux-azure-6.2 Package: linux-azure-edge Package: linux-azure-fde Package: linux-azure-fde-5.15 Package: linux-azure-fde-5.19 Package: linux-azure-fde-6.2 Package: linux-gcp Package: linux-gcp-5.11 Package: linux-gcp-5.13 Package: linux-gcp-5.15 Package: linux-gcp-5.19 Package: linux-gcp-5.3 Package: linux-gcp-5.8 Package: linux-gcp-6.2 Package: linux-gke Package: linux-gke-4.15 Package: linux-gke-5.15 Package: linux-gke-5.4 Package: linux-gkeop Package: linux-gkeop-5.15 Package: linux-gkeop-5.4 Package: linux-hwe Package: linux-hwe-5.11 Package: linux-hwe-5.13 Package: linux-hwe-5.15 Package: linux-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-hwe-5.8 Package: linux-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-hwe-edge Package: linux-ibm Package: linux-intel-5.13 Package: linux-intel-iot-realtime Package: linux-intel-iotg Package: linux-intel-iotg-5.15 Package: linux-kvm Package: linux-lowlatency Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-nvidia Package: linux-nvidia-6.2 Package: linux-oem Package: linux-oem-5.10 Package: linux-oem-5.13 Package: linux-oem-5.14 Package: linux-oem-5.17 Package: linux-oem-5.6 Package: linux-oem-6.0 Package: linux-oem-6.1 Package: linux-oracle Package: linux-oracle-5.0 Package: linux-oracle-5.11 Package: linux-oracle-5.13 Package: linux-oracle-5.15 Package: linux-oracle-5.3 Package: linux-oracle-5.8 Package: linux-raspi Package: linux-raspi-realtime Package: linux-raspi2 Package: linux-realtime Package: linux-riscv Package: linux-riscv-5.11 Package: linux-riscv-5.15 Package: linux-riscv-5.19 Package: linux-riscv-5.8 Package: linux-starfive-5.19 Package: linux-starfive-6.2 Platform: Linux Ecosystem: Debian Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bonding: fix NULL deref in bond_rr_gen_slave_id

Fix a NULL dereference of the struct bonding.rr_tx_counter member because
if a bond is initially created with an initial mode != zero (Round Robin)
the memory required for the counter is never created and when the mode is
changed there is never any attempt to verify the memory is allocated upon
switching modes.

This causes the following Oops on an aarch64 machine:
[ 334.686773] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffff2c91ac905000
[ 334.694703] Mem abort info:
[ 334.697486] ESR = 0x0000000096000004
[ 334.701234] EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
[ 334.706536] SET = 0, FnV = 0
[ 334.709579] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
[ 334.712719] FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault
[ 334.717586] Data abort info:
[ 334.720454] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004
[ 334.724288] CM = 0, WnR = 0
[ 334.727244] swapper pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=000008044d662000
[ 334.733944] [ffff2c91ac905000] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000
[ 334.740734] Internal error: Oops: 96000004 [#1] SMP
[ 334.745602] Modules linked in: bonding tls veth rfkill sunrpc arm_spe_pmu vfat fat acpi_ipmi ipmi_ssif ixgbe igb i40e mdio ipmi_devintf ipmi_msghandler arm_cmn arm_dsu_pmu cppc_cpufreq acpi_tad fuse zram crct10dif_ce ast ghash_ce sbsa_gwdt nvme drm_vram_helper drm_ttm_helper nvme_core ttm xgene_hwmon
[ 334.772217] CPU: 7 PID: 2214 Comm: ping Not tainted 6.0.0-rc4-00133-g64ae13ed4784 #4
[ 334.779950] Hardware name: GIGABYTE R272-P31-00/MP32-AR1-00, BIOS F18v (SCP: 1.08.20211002) 12/01/2021
[ 334.789244] pstate: 60400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[ 334.796196] pc : bond_rr_gen_slave_id+0x40/0x124 [bonding]
[ 334.801691] lr : bond_xmit_roundrobin_slave_get+0x38/0xdc [bonding]
[ 334.807962] sp : ffff8000221733e0
[ 334.811265] x29: ffff8000221733e0 x28: ffffdbac8572d198 x27: ffff80002217357c
[ 334.818392] x26: 000000000000002a x25: ffffdbacb33ee000 x24: ffff07ff980fa000
[ 334.825519] x23: ffffdbacb2e398ba x22: ffff07ff98102000 x21: ffff07ff981029c0
[ 334.832646] x20: 0000000000000001 x19: ffff07ff981029c0 x18: 0000000000000014
[ 334.839773] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: ffffdbacb1004364 x15: 0000aaaabe2f5a62
[ 334.846899] x14: ffff07ff8e55d968 x13: ffff07ff8e55db30 x12: 0000000000000000
[ 334.854026] x11: ffffdbacb21532e8 x10: 0000000000000001 x9 : ffffdbac857178ec
[ 334.861153] x8 : ffff07ff9f6e5a28 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 000000007c2b3742
[ 334.868279] x5 : ffff2c91ac905000 x4 : ffff2c91ac905000 x3 : ffff07ff9f554400
[ 334.875406] x2 : ffff2c91ac905000 x1 : 0000000000000001 x0 : ffff07ff981029c0
[ 334.882532] Call trace:
[ 334.884967] bond_rr_gen_slave_id+0x40/0x124 [bonding]
[ 334.890109] bond_xmit_roundrobin_slave_get+0x38/0xdc [bonding]
[ 334.896033] __bond_start_xmit+0x128/0x3a0 [bonding]
[ 334.901001] bond_start_xmit+0x54/0xb0 [bonding]
[ 334.905622] dev_hard_start_xmit+0xb4/0x220
[ 334.909798] __dev_queue_xmit+0x1a0/0x720
[ 334.913799] arp_xmit+0x3c/0xbc
[ 334.916932] arp_send_dst+0x98/0xd0
[ 334.920410] arp_solicit+0xe8/0x230
[ 334.923888] neigh_probe+0x60/0xb0
[ 334.927279] __neigh_event_send+0x3b0/0x470
[ 334.931453] neigh_resolve_output+0x70/0x90
[ 334.935626] ip_finish_output2+0x158/0x514
[ 334.939714] __ip_finish_output+0xac/0x1a4
[ 334.943800] ip_finish_output+0x40/0xfc
[ 334.947626] ip_output+0xf8/0x1a4
[ 334.950931] ip_send_skb+0x5c/0x100
[ 334.954410] ip_push_pending_frames+0x3c/0x60
[ 334.958758] raw_sendmsg+0x458/0x6d0
[ 334.962325] inet_sendmsg+0x50/0x80
[ 334.965805] sock_sendmsg+0x60/0x6c
[ 334.969286] __sys_sendto+0xc8/0x134
[ 334.972853] __arm64_sys_sendto+0x34/0x4c
---truncated---

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 5.14 5.15.71

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 6.0.2-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.0.2-1 —
Debian 12 linux 6.0.2-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-raspi-realtime No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux +1 5.15.0-57.63 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws 5.15.0-1027.31 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure 5.15.0-1030.37 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-fde 5.15.0-1030.37.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp 5.15.0-1026.33 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gke 5.15.0-1024.29 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gkeop 5.15.0-1012.16 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-ibm 5.15.0-1022.25 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg 5.15.0-1023.28 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-kvm 5.15.0-1025.30 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia 5.15.0-1015.15 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oracle 5.15.0-1026.32 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-raspi 5.15.0-1022.24 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +22 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-aws-5.15 +1 5.15.0-1027.31~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-azure-5.15 5.15.0-1030.37~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-azure-fde-5.15 5.15.0-1030.37~20.04.1.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gcp-5.15 5.15.0-1027.34~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +26 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gkeop-5.15 5.15.0-1012.16~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-hwe-5.15 5.15.0-57.63~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg-5.15 5.15.0-1023.28~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15 5.15.0-58.64~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-oracle-5.15 5.15.0-1027.33~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +13 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-realtime 5.15.0-1029.32 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP5 kernel-64kb +5 5.14.21-150500.55.62.2 SUSE-SU-2024:1659-1
SLES 15 SP5 kernel-azure +2 5.14.21-150500.33.51.1 SUSE-SU-2024:1644-1
SLES 15 SP5 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150500.55.62.2.150500.6.27.2 SUSE-SU-2024:1659-1
SLES 15 SP5 kernel-syms 5.14.21-150500.55.62.1 SUSE-SU-2024:1659-1
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLE Micro 5.5 kernel-default 5.14.21-150500.55.62.2 SUSE-SU-2024:1659-1
SLE Micro 5.5 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150500.55.62.2.150500.6.27.2 SUSE-SU-2024:1659-1
SLE Micro 5.5 kernel-rt +1 5.14.21-150500.13.52.1 SUSE-SU-2024:1663-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP5 kernel-default 5.14.21-150500.55.62.2 SUSE-SU-2024:1659-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP5 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP5-RT_Update_14 1-150500.11.5.1 SUSE-SU-2024:1663-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP5 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP5_Update_13 1-150500.11.3.2 SUSE-SU-2024:1659-1
SUSE Real Time Module 15 SP5 kernel-rt +3 5.14.21-150500.13.52.1 SUSE-SU-2024:1663-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 15.5 dtb-aarch64 +2 5.14.21-150500.55.62.1 SUSE-SU-2024:1659-1
openSUSE Leap 15.5 kernel-64kb +7 5.14.21-150500.55.62.2 SUSE-SU-2024:1659-1
openSUSE Leap 15.5 kernel-azure +2 5.14.21-150500.33.51.1 SUSE-SU-2024:1644-1
openSUSE Leap 15.5 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150500.55.62.2.150500.6.27.2 SUSE-SU-2024:1659-1
openSUSE Leap 15.5 kernel-rt +3 5.14.21-150500.13.52.1 SUSE-SU-2024:1663-1

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