5.5

CVE-2024-42134

virtio-pci: Check if is_avq is NULL

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

virtio-pci: Check if is_avq is NULL

[bug]
In the virtio_pci_common.c function vp_del_vqs, vp_dev->is_avq is involved
to determine whether it is admin virtqueue, but this function vp_dev->is_avq
 may be empty. For installations, virtio_pci_legacy does not assign a value
 to vp_dev->is_avq.

[fix]
Check whether it is vp_dev->is_avq before use.

[test]
Test with virsh Attach device
Before this patch, the following command would crash the guest system

After applying the patch, everything seems to be working fine.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version < 6.9.9
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.2% 0.096
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.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e2024b0b9b3d5709e3f7e9b92951d7e29154106
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c8fae27d141a32a1624d0d0d5419d94252824498
Patch