CVE-2022-48879

unknown
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: efi: fix NULL-deref in init error path In cases where runtime services are not supported or have been disabled, the runtime services workqueue will never have been allocated. Do not try to destroy the workqueue unconditionally in the unlikely event that EFI initialisation fails to avoid dereferencing a NULL pointer.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-48879

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-48879.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed6.1.7-1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.10.178-1
debian debianforkyfixed6.1.7-1
debian debiansidfixed6.1.7-1
debian debiantrixiefixed6.1.7-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.