5.5

CVE-2022-48865

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

tipc: fix kernel panic when enabling bearer

When enabling a bearer on a node, a kernel panic is observed:

[    4.498085] RIP: 0010:tipc_mon_prep+0x4e/0x130 [tipc]
...
[    4.520030] Call Trace:
[    4.520689]  <IRQ>
[    4.521236]  tipc_link_build_proto_msg+0x375/0x750 [tipc]
[    4.522654]  tipc_link_build_state_msg+0x48/0xc0 [tipc]
[    4.524034]  __tipc_node_link_up+0xd7/0x290 [tipc]
[    4.525292]  tipc_rcv+0x5da/0x730 [tipc]
[    4.526346]  ? __netif_receive_skb_core+0xb7/0xfc0
[    4.527601]  tipc_l2_rcv_msg+0x5e/0x90 [tipc]
[    4.528737]  __netif_receive_skb_list_core+0x20b/0x260
[    4.530068]  netif_receive_skb_list_internal+0x1bf/0x2e0
[    4.531450]  ? dev_gro_receive+0x4c2/0x680
[    4.532512]  napi_complete_done+0x6f/0x180
[    4.533570]  virtnet_poll+0x29c/0x42e [virtio_net]
...

The node in question is receiving activate messages in another
thread after changing bearer status to allow message sending/
receiving in current thread:

         thread 1           |              thread 2
         --------           |              --------
                            |
tipc_enable_bearer()        |
  test_and_set_bit_lock()   |
    tipc_bearer_xmit_skb()  |
                            | tipc_l2_rcv_msg()
                            |   tipc_rcv()
                            |     __tipc_node_link_up()
                            |       tipc_link_build_state_msg()
                            |         tipc_link_build_proto_msg()
                            |           tipc_mon_prep()
                            |           {
                            |             ...
                            |             // null-pointer dereference
                            |             u16 gen = mon->dom_gen;
                            |             ...
                            |           }
  // Not being executed yet |
  tipc_mon_create()         |
  {                         |
    ...                     |
    // allocate             |
    mon = kzalloc();        |
    ...                     |
  }                         |

Monitoring pointer in thread 2 is dereferenced before monitoring data
is allocated in thread 1. This causes kernel panic.

This commit fixes it by allocating the monitoring data before enabling
the bearer to receive messages.
Data is provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 4.8 < 5.10.106
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.11 < 5.15.29
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.16 < 5.16.15
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Type Source Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.02% 0.037
CVSS Metriken
Source Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector string
nvd@nist.gov 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.