CVE-2022-48764

KVM: x86: Free kvm_cpuid_entry2 array on post-KVM_RUN KVM_SET_CPUID{,2}

Medium · published June 20, 2024

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
7.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

KVM: x86: Free kvm_cpuid_entry2 array on post-KVM_RUN KVM_SET_CPUID{,2}

Free the "struct kvm_cpuid_entry2" array on successful post-KVM_RUN

KVM_SET_CPUID{,2} to fix a memory leak, the callers of kvm_set_cpuid()

free the array only on failure.

BUG: memory leak

unreferenced object 0xffff88810963a800 (size 2048):

comm "syz-executor025", pid 3610, jiffies 4294944928 (age 8.080s)

hex dump (first 32 bytes):

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0d 00 00 00 ................

47 65 6e 75 6e 74 65 6c 69 6e 65 49 00 00 00 00 GenuntelineI....

backtrace:

[<ffffffff814948ee>] kmalloc_node include/linux/slab.h:604 [inline]

[<ffffffff814948ee>] kvmalloc_node+0x3e/0x100 mm/util.c:580

[<ffffffff814950f2>] kvmalloc include/linux/slab.h:732 [inline]

[<ffffffff814950f2>] vmemdup_user+0x22/0x100 mm/util.c:199

[<ffffffff8109f5ff>] kvm_vcpu_ioctl_set_cpuid2+0x8f/0xf0 arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c:423

[<ffffffff810711b9>] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl+0xb99/0x1e60 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:5251

[<ffffffff8103e92d>] kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x4ad/0x950 arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:4066

[<ffffffff815afacc>] vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]

[<ffffffff815afacc>] __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:874 [inline]

[<ffffffff815afacc>] __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:860 [inline]

[<ffffffff815afacc>] __x64_sys_ioctl+0xfc/0x140 fs/ioctl.c:860

[<ffffffff844a3335>] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]

[<ffffffff844a3335>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80

[<ffffffff84600068>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00179 · 7.1th percentile
Published
2024-06-20T11:13Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 20 JUN 11:13Z
    KVM: x86: Free kvm_cpuid_entry2 array on post-KVM_RUN KVM_SET_CPUID{,2}
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