Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wan: wanxl: Only reset hardware after BAR mapping
wanxl_pci_init_one() stores the freshly allocated card in driver data before the PLX BAR is mapped. Several early probe failures then unwind through wanxl_pci_remove_one(), including failure to allocate the coherent status area or to restore the DMA mask.
wanxl_pci_remove_one() unconditionally calls wanxl_reset(), and wanxl_reset() dereferences card->plx. On those early failures card->plx is still NULL, so the error path can dereference a NULL MMIO pointer.
Only issue the hardware reset once the BAR mapping exists. The remaining cleanup in wanxl_pci_remove_one() already checks whether later resources were allocated.
This issue was found by a static analysis checker and confirmed by manual source review.
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 , Debian 11 ELS , Oracle Linux 6 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , RHEL 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , TuxCare 9.8 ESU , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- linux @ 4.19.0 (+19 more)
Fixes
KernelCare state
Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.
| Operating system | Status | Covered kernels |
|---|---|---|
| Debian 12 | Released |
43 kernels
|
| Debian 13 | Released |
14 kernels
|
| Proxmox VE 7 5.15 | Released |
47 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 20.04 HWE AWS | Released |
57 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 22.04 | Released |
102 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 22.04 AWS | Released |
93 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 22.04 Azure | Released |
83 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 24.04 | Planned | — |
| Ubuntu 24.04 AWS | Planned | — |
| Ubuntu 26.04 | In Rollout |
2 kernels
|