Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
comedi: ni_atmio16d: Fix invalid clean-up after failed attach
If the driver’s COMEDI “attach” handler function (atmio16d_attach())
returns an error, the COMEDI core will call the driver’s “detach”
handler function (atmio16d_detach()) to clean up. This calls
reset_atmio16d() unconditionally, but depending on where the error
occurred in the attach handler, the device may not have been
sufficiently initialized to call reset_atmio16d(). It uses
dev->iobase as the I/O port base address and dev->private as the
pointer to the COMEDI device’s private data structure. dev->iobase
may still be set to its initial value of 0, which would result in
undesired writes to low I/O port addresses. dev->private may still be
NULL, which would result in null pointer dereferences.
Fix atmio16d_detach() by checking that dev->private is valid
(non-null) before calling reset_atmio16d(). This implies that
dev->iobase was set correctly since that is set up before
dev->private.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , Amazon Linux 2 ELS , CentOS 6 ELS , CentOS 7 ELS , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , CloudLinux 7 ELS , Debian 10 ELS , Oracle Linux 6 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , RHEL 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- kernel @ 5.10.0 (+18 more)
Fixes
KernelCare state
Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.
| Operating system | Status | Covered kernels |
|---|---|---|
| Debian 11 | Released |
37 kernels
|
| Debian 11 cloud | Released |
17 kernels
|
| Debian 12 | In Rollout |
35 kernels
|
| Debian 13 | Planned | — |
| Ubuntu 22.04 | Planned | — |
| Ubuntu 24.04 | Planned | — |