NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-abi-stablelists package, versions <0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3
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- published15 Aug 2025
- disclosed26 Feb 2025
Introduced: 26 Feb 2025
CVE-2022-49257 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade RHEL:9 kernel-abi-stablelists to version 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2023:6583.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-abi-stablelists package and not the kernel-abi-stablelists package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
watch_queue: Fix NULL dereference in error cleanup
In watch_queue_set_size(), the error cleanup code doesn't take account of the fact that __free_page() can't handle a NULL pointer when trying to free up buffer pages that did get allocated.
Fix this by only calling __free_page() on the pages actually allocated.
Without the fix, this can lead to something like the following:
BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in __free_pages+0x1f/0x1b0 mm/page_alloc.c:5473 Read of size 4 at addr 0000000000000034 by task syz-executor168/3599 ... Call Trace: <TASK> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134 lib/dump_stack.c:106 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:446 [inline] kasan_report.cold+0x66/0xdf mm/kasan/report.c:459 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:183 [inline] kasan_check_range+0x13d/0x180 mm/kasan/generic.c:189 instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:71 [inline] atomic_read include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:27 [inline] page_ref_count include/linux/page_ref.h:67 [inline] put_page_testzero include/linux/mm.h:717 [inline] __free_pages+0x1f/0x1b0 mm/page_alloc.c:5473 watch_queue_set_size+0x499/0x630 kernel/watch_queue.c:275 pipe_ioctl+0xac/0x2b0 fs/pipe.c:632 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline] __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:874 [inline] __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:860 [inline] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x193/0x200 fs/ioctl.c:860 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-49257
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/112a2f9b0a8457794095a0450598f150724ec456
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5ae75b4ed30322b42abaa75ef1b784addfdb7dc9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/695c47cea02b9101e2fc2e7d36d552128592b347
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a635415a064e77bcfbf43da413fd9dfe0bbed9cb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b6f5ad3e45d19f9c4ee3e8a2aff829f28d68591d