CVE-2022-48750

hwmon: (nct6775) Fix crash in clear_caseopen

published June 20, 2024

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
12.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

hwmon: (nct6775) Fix crash in clear_caseopen

Paweł Marciniak reports the following crash, observed when clearing

the chassis intrusion alarm.

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000028

PGD 0 P4D 0

Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI

CPU: 3 PID: 4815 Comm: bash Tainted: G S 5.16.2-200.fc35.x86_64 #1

Hardware name: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M./Z97 Extreme4, BIOS P2.60A 05/03/2018

RIP: 0010:clear_caseopen+0x5a/0x120 [nct6775]

Code: 68 70 e8 e9 32 b1 e3 85 c0 0f 85 d2 00 00 00 48 83 7c 24 ...

RSP: 0018:ffffabcb02803dd8 EFLAGS: 00010246

RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000002 RCX: 0000000000000000

RDX: ffff8e8808192880 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff8e87c7509a68

RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 000000000000000a

R10: 000000000000000a R11: f000000000000000 R12: 000000000000001f

R13: ffff8e87c7509828 R14: ffff8e87c7509a68 R15: ffff8e88494527a0

FS: 00007f4db9151740(0000) GS:ffff8e8ebfec0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000

CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033

CR2: 0000000000000028 CR3: 0000000166b66001 CR4: 00000000001706e0

Call Trace:

<TASK>

kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x11c/0x1b0

new_sync_write+0x10b/0x180

vfs_write+0x209/0x2a0

ksys_write+0x4f/0xc0

do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

The problem is that the device passed to clear_caseopen() is the hwmon

device, not the platform device, and the platform data is not set in the

hwmon device. Store the pointer to sio_data in struct nct6775_data and

get if from there if needed.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00223 · 12.2th percentile
Published
2024-06-20T11:13Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 20 JUN 11:13Z
    hwmon: (nct6775) Fix crash in clear_caseopen
    cvelistv5