5.5

CVE-2022-50369

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

drm/vkms: Fix null-ptr-deref in vkms_release()

A null-ptr-deref is triggered when it tries to destroy the workqueue in
vkms->output.composer_workq in vkms_release().

 KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000118-0x000000000000011f]
 CPU: 5 PID: 17193 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 6.0.0-11331-gd465bff130bf #24
 RIP: 0010:destroy_workqueue+0x2f/0x710
 ...
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  ? vkms_config_debugfs_init+0x50/0x50 [vkms]
  __devm_drm_dev_alloc+0x15a/0x1c0 [drm]
  vkms_init+0x245/0x1000 [vkms]
  do_one_initcall+0xd0/0x4f0
  do_init_module+0x1a4/0x680
  load_module+0x6249/0x7110
  __do_sys_finit_module+0x140/0x200
  do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

The reason is that an OOM happened which triggers the destroy of the
workqueue, however, the workqueue is alloced in the later process,
thus a null-ptr-deref happened. A simple call graph is shown as below:

 vkms_init()
  vkms_create()
    devm_drm_dev_alloc()
      __devm_drm_dev_alloc()
        devm_drm_dev_init()
          devm_add_action_or_reset()
            devm_add_action() # an error happened
            devm_drm_dev_init_release()
              drm_dev_put()
                kref_put()
                  drm_dev_release()
                    vkms_release()
                      destroy_workqueue() # null-ptr-deref happened
    vkms_modeset_init()
      vkms_output_init()
        vkms_crtc_init() # where the workqueue get allocated

Fix this by checking if composer_workq is NULL before passing it to
the destroy_workqueue() in vkms_release().
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LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 4.20 < 5.10.173
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.11 < 5.15.99
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.16 < 6.1.16
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.2 < 6.2.3
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.02% 0.035
CVSS Metriken
Quelle 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.