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CVE-2022-49010

Updated on 21 Oct 2024

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE ID
Links
NISTCIRCLRHELUbuntu

Overview

About vulnerability

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

hwmon: (coretemp) Check for null before removing sysfs attrs

If coretemp_add_core() gets an error then pdata->core_data[indx] is already NULL and has been kfreed. Don’t pass that to sysfs_remove_group() as that will crash in sysfs_remove_group().

[Shortened for readability] [91854.020159] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename ‘/devices/platform/coretemp.0/hwmon/hwmon2/temp20_label’ [91855.126115] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000188 [91855.165103] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [91855.194506] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [91855.224445] PGD 0 P4D 0 [91855.238508] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI … [91855.342716] RIP: 0010:sysfs_remove_group+0xc/0x80 … [91855.796571] Call Trace: [91855.810524] coretemp_cpu_offline+0x12b/0x1dd [coretemp] [91855.841738] ? coretemp_cpu_online+0x180/0x180 [coretemp] [91855.871107] cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x105/0x4b0 [91855.893432] cpuhp_thread_fun+0x8e/0x150 …

Fix this by checking for NULL first.

Details

Affected product:
CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS
Affected packages:
kernel @ 4.18.0 (+4 more)

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

hwmon: (coretemp) Check for null before removing sysfs attrs

If coretemp_add_core() gets an error then pdata->core_data[indx] is already NULL and has been kfreed. Don’t pass that to sysfs_remove_group() as that will crash in sysfs_remove_group().

[Shortened for readability] [91854.020159] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename ‘/devices/platform/coretemp.0/hwmon/hwmon2/temp20_label’ [91855.126115] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000188 [91855.165103] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [91855.194506] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [91855.224445] PGD 0 P4D 0 [91855.238508] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI … [91855.342716] RIP: 0010:sysfs_remove_group+0xc/0x80 … [91855.796571] Call Trace: [91855.810524] coretemp_cpu_offline+0x12b/0x1dd [coretemp] [91855.841738] ? coretemp_cpu_online+0x180/0x180 [coretemp] [91855.871107] cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x105/0x4b0 [91855.893432] cpuhp_thread_fun+0x8e/0x150 …

Fix this by checking for NULL first.

Fixes