linux — security advisory

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  "id": "a38841bd84d009bbfafffea1bc28f25d3e59d22309cda8e812aa03ebcdf315d4",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49916",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49916",
    "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rose: Fix NULL pointer dereference in rose_send_frame() The syzkaller reported an issue: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000380-0x0000000000000387] CPU: 0 PID: 4069 Comm: kworker/0:15 Not tainted 6.0.0-syzkaller-02734-g0326074ff465 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/22/2022 Workqueue: rcu_gp srcu_invoke_callbacks RIP: 0010:rose_send_frame+0x1dd/0x2f0 net/rose/rose_link.c:101 Call Trace: rose_transmit_clear_request+0x1d5/0x290 net/rose/rose_link.c:255 rose_rx_call_request+0x4c0/0x1bc0 net/rose/af_rose.c:1009 rose_loopback_timer+0x19e/0x590 net/rose/rose_loopback.c:111 call_timer_fn+0x1a0/0x6b0 kernel/time/timer.c:1474 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1519 [inline] __run_timers.part.0+0x674/0xa80 kernel/time/timer.c:1790 __run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1768 [inline] run_timer_softirq+0xb3/0x1d0 kernel/time/timer.c:1803 __do_softirq+0x1d0/0x9c8 kernel/softirq.c:571 [...] It triggers NULL pointer dereference when 'neigh->dev->dev_addr' is called in the rose_send_frame(). It's the first occurrence of the `neigh` is in rose_loopback_timer() as `rose_loopback_neigh', and the 'dev' in 'rose_loopback_neigh' is initialized sa nullptr. It had been fixed by commit 3b3fd068c56e3fbea30090859216a368398e39bf (\"rose: Fix Null pointer dereference in rose_send_frame()\") ever. But it's introduced by commit 3c53cd65dece47dd1f9d3a809f32e59d1d87b2b8 (\"rose: check NULL ",
    "evidence": "osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49916",
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    "severity": "medium",
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      "metrics": [
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
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          "package": {
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            "purl": "pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=bookworm",
            "ecosystem": "Debian:12"
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          "ecosystem_specific": {
            "urgency": "not yet assigned"
          }
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          ],
          "package": {
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            "purl": "pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=trixie",
            "ecosystem": "Debian:13"
          },
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          },
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          }
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          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "linux",
            "purl": "pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=forky",
            "ecosystem": "Debian:14"
          },
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          "ecosystem_specific": {
            "urgency": "not yet assigned"
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-15T08:03:12.322533721Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "upstream": [
        "CVE-2022-49916"
      ],
      "references": [
        "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-49916"
      ]
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2022-49916",
        "evidence": "/upstream"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 325721,
  "published_at": "2025-05-01T15:16:16.82+00:00"
}