Security Advisory

CVE-2022-48879

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2024-08-21 06:10:10
Last updated 2026-05-23 15:21:00
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

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.