CVE-2022-48659: mm/slub: fix to return errno if kmalloc() fails
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2022-48659 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 15.3% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 5.5, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 5 · Related 4Timeline
- 28-04-2024PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 11-05-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/slub: fix to return errno if kmalloc() fails In create_unique_id(), kmalloc(, GFP_KERNEL) can fail due to out-of-memory, if it fails, return errno correctly rather than triggering panic via BUG_ON(); kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:5893! Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Call trace: sysfs_slab_add+0x258/0x260 mm/slub.c:5973 __kmem_cache_create+0x60/0x118 mm/slub.c:4899 create_cache mm/slab_common.c:229 [inline] kmem_cache_create_usercopy+0x19c/0x31c mm/slab_common.c:335 kmem_cache_create+0x1c/0x28 mm/slab_common.c:390 f2fs_kmem_cache_create fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:2766 [inline] f2fs_init_xattr_caches+0x78/0xb4 fs/f2fs/xattr.c:808 f2fs_fill_super+0x1050/0x1e0c fs/f2fs/super.c:4149 mount_bdev+0x1b8/0x210 fs/super.c:1400 f2fs_mount+0x44/0x58 fs/f2fs/super.c:4512 legacy_get_tree+0x30/0x74 fs/fs_context.c:610 vfs_get_tree+0x40/0x140 fs/super.c:1530 do_new_mount+0x1dc/0x4e4 fs/namespace.c:3040 path_mount+0x358/0x914 fs/namespace.c:3370 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3383 [inline] __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3591 [inline] __se_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3568 [inline] __arm64_sys_mount+0x2f8/0x408 fs/namespace.c:3568
CVSS metrics
4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated5.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated5.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.24%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
15%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 0.24% on 05-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeNo weakness data has been published for this record.
Affected systems
Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Ubuntu101 products
- linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 4.4.0-258.292 | < 4.15.0-204.215 | < 5.4.0-136.153 | < 5.15.0-57.63
- linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-aws< 4.4.0-1135.141 | < 4.4.0-1173.188 | < 4.15.0-1150.163 | < 5.4.0-1093.101 | < 5.15.0-1027.31
- linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
- linux≥ 81819f0fc8285a2a5a921c019e3e3d7b6169d225, < e9219fa63c5c25804af82c7aa54d1ec770ebe457 | ≥ 81819f0fc8285a2a5a921c019e3e3d7b6169d225, < a1d83a19cec3bfeb2b3547a1f7631e432a766d1c | ≥ 81819f0fc8285a2a5a921c019e3e3d7b6169d225, < e996821717c5cf8aa1e1abdb6b3d900a231e3755 | ≥ 81819f0fc8285a2a5a921c019e3e3d7b6169d225, < 016b150992eebc32c4a18f783cf2bb6e2545a3d9 | ≥ 81819f0fc8285a2a5a921c019e3e3d7b6169d225, < 379ac7905ff3f0a6a4e507d3e9f710ec4fab9124 | ≥ 81819f0fc8285a2a5a921c019e3e3d7b6169d225, < 2d6e55e0c03804e1e227b80a5746e086d6c6696c | ≥ 81819f0fc8285a2a5a921c019e3e3d7b6169d225, < 02bcd951aa3c2cea95fb241c20802e9501940296 | ≥ 81819f0fc8285a2a5a921c019e3e3d7b6169d225, < 7e9c323c52b379d261a72dc7bd38120a761a93cd | 2.6.22
- linux_kernel≥ 2.6.22, < 4.9.330 | ≥ 4.10, < 4.14.295 | ≥ 4.15, < 4.19.260 | ≥ 4.20, < 5.4.215 | ≥ 5.5, < 5.10.146 | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.71 | ≥ 5.16, < 5.19.12
Debian1 product
- linux< 6.0.2-1
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