NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-default-base package, versions <5.14.21-150400.24.141.1.150400.24.68.2
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- published3 Dec 2024
- disclosed2 Dec 2024
Introduced: 2 Dec 2024
NewCVE-2022-49021 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade SLES:15.4 kernel-default-base to version 5.14.21-150400.24.141.1.150400.24.68.2 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-default-base package and not the kernel-default-base package as distributed by SLES.
See How to fix? for SLES:15.4 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: phy: fix null-ptr-deref while probe() failed
I got a null-ptr-deref report as following when doing fault injection test:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000058 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI CPU: 1 PID: 253 Comm: 507-spi-dm9051 Tainted: G B N 6.1.0-rc3+ Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:klist_put+0x2d/0xd0 Call Trace: <TASK> klist_remove+0xf1/0x1c0 device_release_driver_internal+0x23e/0x2d0 bus_remove_device+0x1bd/0x240 device_del+0x357/0x770 phy_device_remove+0x11/0x30 mdiobus_unregister+0xa5/0x140 release_nodes+0x6a/0xa0 devres_release_all+0xf8/0x150 device_unbind_cleanup+0x19/0xd0
//probe path: phy_device_register() device_add()
phy_connect phy_attach_direct() //set device driver probe() //it's failed, driver is not bound device_bind_driver() // probe failed, it's not called
//remove path: phy_device_remove() device_del() device_release_driver_internal() __device_release_driver() //dev->drv is not NULL klist_remove() <- knode_driver is not added yet, cause null-ptr-deref
In phy_attach_direct(), after setting the 'dev->driver', probe() fails, device_bind_driver() is not called, so the knode_driver->n_klist is not set, then it causes null-ptr-deref in __device_release_driver() while deleting device. Fix this by setting dev->driver to NULL in the error path in phy_attach_direct().
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-49021.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1231939
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0744c7be4de564db03e24527b2e096b7e0e20972
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/369eb2c9f1f72adbe91e0ea8efb130f0a2ba11a6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e21f85d87c836462bb52ef2078ea561260935c1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/51d7f6b20fae8bae64ad1136f1e30d1fd5ba78f7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7730904f50c7187dd16c76949efb56b5fb55cd57
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8aaafe0f71314f46a066382a047ba8bb3840d273
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eaa5722549ac2604ffa56c2e946acc83226f130c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe6bc99c27c21348f548966118867ed26a9a372c