Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: mts64: fix possible null-ptr-defer in snd_mts64_interrupt
I got a null-ptr-defer error report when I do the following tests on the qemu platform:
make defconfig and CONFIG_PARPORT=m, CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m, CONFIG_SND_MTS64=m
Then making test scripts: cat>test_mod1.sh«EOF modprobe snd-mts64 modprobe snd-mts64 EOF
Executing the script, perhaps several times, we will get a null-ptr-defer report, as follow:
syzkaller:~# ./test_mod.sh
snd_mts64: probe of snd_mts64.0 failed with error -5
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert ‘snd_mts64’: No such device
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
#PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
CPU: 0 PID: 205 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 6.1.0-rc8-00588-g76dcd734eca2 #6
Call Trace:
The mts wa not initialized during interrupt, we add check for mts to fix this bug.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU
- Affected packages:
- kernel @ 4.18.0 (+4 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: mts64: fix possible null-ptr-defer in snd_mts64_interrupt
I got a null-ptr-defer error report when I do the following tests on the qemu platform:
make defconfig and CONFIG_PARPORT=m, CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m, CONFIG_SND_MTS64=m
Then making test scripts: cat>test_mod1.sh«EOF modprobe snd-mts64 modprobe snd-mts64 EOF
Executing the script, perhaps several times, we will get a null-ptr-defer report, as follow:
syzkaller:~# ./test_mod.sh
snd_mts64: probe of snd_mts64.0 failed with error -5
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert ‘snd_mts64’: No such device
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
#PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
CPU: 0 PID: 205 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 6.1.0-rc8-00588-g76dcd734eca2 #6
Call Trace:
The mts wa not initialized during interrupt, we add check for mts to fix this bug.