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GHSA-W8VV-9899-7R4V

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-03-14 00:30 – Updated: 2025-03-14 00:30

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

vduse: Fix NULL pointer dereference on sysfs access

The control device has no drvdata. So we will get a NULL pointer dereference when accessing control device's msg_timeout attribute via sysfs:

[ 132.841881][ T3644] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000000f8 [ 132.850619][ T3644] RIP: 0010:msg_timeout_show (drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c:1271) [ 132.869447][ T3644] dev_attr_show (drivers/base/core.c:2094) [ 132.870215][ T3644] sysfs_kf_seq_show (fs/sysfs/file.c:59) [ 132.871164][ T3644] ? device_remove_bin_file (drivers/base/core.c:2088) [ 132.872082][ T3644] kernfs_seq_show (fs/kernfs/file.c:164) [ 132.872838][ T3644] seq_read_iter (fs/seq_file.c:230) [ 132.873578][ T3644] ? __vmalloc_area_node (mm/vmalloc.c:3041) [ 132.874532][ T3644] kernfs_fop_read_iter (fs/kernfs/file.c:238) [ 132.875513][ T3644] __kernel_read (fs/read_write.c:440 (discriminator 1)) [ 132.876319][ T3644] kernel_read (fs/read_write.c:459) [ 132.877129][ T3644] kernel_read_file (fs/kernel_read_file.c:94) [ 132.877978][ T3644] kernel_read_file_from_fd (include/linux/file.h:45 fs/kernel_read_file.c:186) [ 132.879019][ T3644] __do_sys_finit_module (kernel/module.c:4207) [ 132.879930][ T3644] __ia32_sys_finit_module (kernel/module.c:4189) [ 132.880930][ T3644] do_int80_syscall_32 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:112 arch/x86/entry/common.c:132) [ 132.881847][ T3644] entry_INT80_compat (arch/x86/entry/entry_64_compat.S:419)

To fix it, don't create the unneeded attribute for control device anymore.

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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  "published": "2025-03-14T00:30:51Z",
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CVE-2022-49329 (GCVE-0-2022-49329)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-26 02:10 – Updated: 2025-10-01 19:46

Title

vduse: Fix NULL pointer dereference on sysfs access

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vduse: Fix NULL pointer dereference on sysfs access The control device has no drvdata. So we will get a NULL pointer dereference when accessing control device's msg_timeout attribute via sysfs: [ 132.841881][ T3644] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000000f8 [ 132.850619][ T3644] RIP: 0010:msg_timeout_show (drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c:1271) [ 132.869447][ T3644] dev_attr_show (drivers/base/core.c:2094) [ 132.870215][ T3644] sysfs_kf_seq_show (fs/sysfs/file.c:59) [ 132.871164][ T3644] ? device_remove_bin_file (drivers/base/core.c:2088) [ 132.872082][ T3644] kernfs_seq_show (fs/kernfs/file.c:164) [ 132.872838][ T3644] seq_read_iter (fs/seq_file.c:230) [ 132.873578][ T3644] ? __vmalloc_area_node (mm/vmalloc.c:3041) [ 132.874532][ T3644] kernfs_fop_read_iter (fs/kernfs/file.c:238) [ 132.875513][ T3644] __kernel_read (fs/read_write.c:440 (discriminator 1)) [ 132.876319][ T3644] kernel_read (fs/read_write.c:459) [ 132.877129][ T3644] kernel_read_file (fs/kernel_read_file.c:94) [ 132.877978][ T3644] kernel_read_file_from_fd (include/linux/file.h:45 fs/kernel_read_file.c:186) [ 132.879019][ T3644] __do_sys_finit_module (kernel/module.c:4207) [ 132.879930][ T3644] __ia32_sys_finit_module (kernel/module.c:4189) [ 132.880930][ T3644] do_int80_syscall_32 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:112 arch/x86/entry/common.c:132) [ 132.881847][ T3644] entry_INT80_compat (arch/x86/entry/entry_64_compat.S:419) To fix it, don't create the unneeded attribute for control device anymore.

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE

CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a7a81f4835dfda11…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/30fd1b56621e18734…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b22fdee17ec626040…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b27ee76c74dc831d6…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Linux

Affected: c8a6153b6c59d95c0e091f053f6f180952ade91e , < 3a7a81f4835dfda11f39fdd27586da14331896eb (git)
Affected: c8a6153b6c59d95c0e091f053f6f180952ade91e , < 30fd1b56621e187346f65d01fe34870634b15188 (git)
Affected: c8a6153b6c59d95c0e091f053f6f180952ade91e , < b22fdee17ec62604060fb0fda5e1414b634666e1 (git)
Affected: c8a6153b6c59d95c0e091f053f6f180952ade91e , < b27ee76c74dc831d6e092eaebc2dfc9c0beed1c9 (git)

Linux

Affected: 5.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.47 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.17.15 , ≤ 5.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.18.4 , ≤ 5.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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GHSA-W8VV-9899-7R4V

CVE-2022-49329 (GCVE-0-2022-49329)

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