CVE-2022-49329

vduse: Fix NULL pointer dereference on sysfs access

Medium · published February 26, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
16.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00261 · 16.9th percentile
Published
2025-02-26T02:10Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 FEB 02:10Z
    vduse: Fix NULL pointer dereference on sysfs access
    cvelistv5