Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
staging: vme_user: Fix possible UAF in tsi148_dma_list_add
Smatch report warning as follows:
drivers/staging/vme_user/vme_tsi148.c:1757 tsi148_dma_list_add() warn: ‘&entry->list’ not removed from list
In tsi148_dma_list_add(), the error path “goto err_dma” will not remove entry->list from list->entries, but entry will be freed, then list traversal may cause UAF.
Fix by removeing it from list->entries before free().
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- kernel @ 4.18.0 (+9 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
staging: vme_user: Fix possible UAF in tsi148_dma_list_add
Smatch report warning as follows:
drivers/staging/vme_user/vme_tsi148.c:1757 tsi148_dma_list_add() warn: ‘&entry->list’ not removed from list
In tsi148_dma_list_add(), the error path “goto err_dma” will not remove entry->list from list->entries, but entry will be freed, then list traversal may cause UAF.
Fix by removeing it from list->entries before free().