NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-modules-extra package, versions <0:5.14.0-162.6.1.el9_1
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- published22 Aug 2025
- disclosed26 Feb 2025
Introduced: 26 Feb 2025
CVE-2022-49268 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade RHEL:9 kernel-modules-extra to version 0:5.14.0-162.6.1.el9_1 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2022:8267.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-modules-extra package and not the kernel-modules-extra 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:
ASoC: SOF: Intel: Fix NULL ptr dereference when ENOMEM
Do not call snd_dma_free_pages() when snd_dma_alloc_pages() returns -ENOMEM because it leads to a NULL pointer dereference bug.
The dmesg says:
[ T1387] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: error: memory alloc failed: -12 [ T1387] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 [ T1387] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [ T1387] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [ T1387] PGD 0 P4D 0 [ T1387] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI [ T1387] CPU: 6 PID: 1387 Comm: alsa-sink-HDA A Tainted: G W 5.17.0-rc4-superb-owl-00055-g80d47f5de5e3 [ T1387] Hardware name: HP HP Laptop 14s-dq2xxx/87FD, BIOS F.15 09/15/2021 [ T1387] RIP: 0010:dma_free_noncontiguous+0x37/0x80 [ T1387] Code: [... snip ...] [ T1387] RSP: 0000:ffffc90002b87770 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ T1387] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ T1387] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff888101db30d0 [ T1387] RBP: 00000000fffffff4 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ T1387] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffc90002b874d0 R12: 0000000000000001 [ T1387] R13: 0000000000058000 R14: ffff888105260c68 R15: ffff888105260828 [ T1387] FS: 00007f42e2ffd640(0000) GS:ffff888466b80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ T1387] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ T1387] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000014acf0003 CR4: 0000000000770ee0 [ T1387] PKRU: 55555554 [ T1387] Call Trace: [ T1387] <TASK> [ T1387] cl_stream_prepare+0x10a/0x120 [snd_sof_intel_hda_common 146addf995b9279ae7f509621078cccbe4f875e1] [... snip ...] [ T1387] </TASK>
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-49268
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01df5f7627f1624d6bb0b8c0870a569b32adfbf8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09eca322d4118dc26570ca6100fa34e59e5a5143
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c307349fe060971625b856c92f0361b8ea9a120
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/67f7bd9ff9079c1ee2de58e024fb582905c74c16
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b6094744e261083d3790c3def770ebf5060d383b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7fb0ae09009d076964afe4c1a2bde1ee2bd88a9