Insecure Default Initialization of Resource The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package bpftool  (opens in a new tab)

The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:7.

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream bpftool package and not the bpftool package as distributed by Centos.

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

Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix initialization of device object in vmbus_device_register()

Initialize the device's dma_{mask,parms} pointers and the device's dma_mask value before invoking device_register(). Address the following trace with 5.17-rc7:

[ 49.646839] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 189 at include/linux/dma-mapping.h:543 netvsc_probe+0x37a/0x3a0 [hv_netvsc] [ 49.646928] Call Trace: [ 49.646930] <TASK> [ 49.646935] vmbus_probe+0x40/0x60 [hv_vmbus] [ 49.646942] really_probe+0x1ce/0x3b0 [ 49.646948] __driver_probe_device+0x109/0x180 [ 49.646952] driver_probe_device+0x23/0xa0 [ 49.646955] __device_attach_driver+0x76/0xe0 [ 49.646958] ? driver_allows_async_probing+0x50/0x50 [ 49.646961] bus_for_each_drv+0x84/0xd0 [ 49.646964] __device_attach+0xed/0x170 [ 49.646967] device_initial_probe+0x13/0x20 [ 49.646970] bus_probe_device+0x8f/0xa0 [ 49.646973] device_add+0x41a/0x8e0 [ 49.646975] ? hrtimer_init+0x28/0x80 [ 49.646981] device_register+0x1b/0x20 [ 49.646983] vmbus_device_register+0x5e/0xf0 [hv_vmbus] [ 49.646991] vmbus_add_channel_work+0x12d/0x190 [hv_vmbus] [ 49.646999] process_one_work+0x21d/0x3f0 [ 49.647002] worker_thread+0x4a/0x3b0 [ 49.647005] ? process_one_work+0x3f0/0x3f0 [ 49.647007] kthread+0xff/0x130 [ 49.647011] ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20 [ 49.647015] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 [ 49.647020] </TASK> [ 49.647021] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-49099
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2fe4b8631427618175a32f125062df91a5fe3f73
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a5469582c241abca22500f36a9cb8e9331969cf