High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published May 3, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2022-48670
CVE-2022-48670
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
peci: cpu: Fix use-after-free in adev_release()
When auxiliary_device_add() returns an error, auxiliary_device_uninit() is called, which causes refcount for device to be decremented and .release callback will be triggered.
Because adev_release() re-calls auxiliary_device_uninit(), it will cause use-after-free: [ 1269.455172] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 14267 at lib/refcount.c:28 refcount_warn_saturate+0x110/0x15 [ 1269.464007] refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.
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