CVE-2022-49374 Affecting kernel-rt-kvm package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNELRTKVM-9086778
  • published5 Mar 2025
  • disclosed26 Feb 2025

Introduced: 26 Feb 2025

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How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:9 kernel-rt-kvm.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-kvm package and not the kernel-rt-kvm 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:

tipc: check attribute length for bearer name

syzbot reported uninit-value:

BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in string_nocheck lib/vsprintf.c:644 [inline] BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in string+0x4f9/0x6f0 lib/vsprintf.c:725 string_nocheck lib/vsprintf.c:644 [inline] string+0x4f9/0x6f0 lib/vsprintf.c:725 vsnprintf+0x2222/0x3650 lib/vsprintf.c:2806 vprintk_store+0x537/0x2150 kernel/printk/printk.c:2158 vprintk_emit+0x28b/0xab0 kernel/printk/printk.c:2256 vprintk_default+0x86/0xa0 kernel/printk/printk.c:2283 vprintk+0x15f/0x180 kernel/printk/printk_safe.c:50 _printk+0x18d/0x1cf kernel/printk/printk.c:2293 tipc_enable_bearer net/tipc/bearer.c:371 [inline] __tipc_nl_bearer_enable+0x2022/0x22a0 net/tipc/bearer.c:1033 tipc_nl_bearer_enable+0x6c/0xb0 net/tipc/bearer.c:1042 genl_family_rcv_msg_doit net/netlink/genetlink.c:731 [inline]

  • Do sanity check the attribute length for TIPC_NLA_BEARER_NAME.
  • Do not use 'illegal name' in printing message.

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