vfio/pci: fix memory leak during D3hot to D0 transition (Linux Linux)

CVE-2022-49219
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.27 % · percentile 19 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vfio/pci: fix memory leak during D3hot to D0 transition If 'vfio_pci_core_device::needs_pm_restore' is set (PCI device does not have No_Soft_Reset bit set in its PMCSR config register), then the current PCI state will be saved locally in 'vfio_pci_core_device::pm_save' during D0->D3hot transition and same will be restored back during D3hot->D0 transition. For saving the PCI state locally, pci_store_saved_state() is being used and the pci_load_and_free_saved_state() will free the allocated memory. But for reset related IOCTLs, vfio driver calls PCI reset-related API's which will internally change the PCI power state back to D0. So, when the guest resumes, then it will get the current state as D0 and it will skip the call to vfio_pci_set_power_state() for changing the power state to D0 explicitly. In this case, the memory pointed by 'pm_save' will never be freed. In a malicious sequence, the state changing to D3hot followed by VFIO_DEVICE_RESET/VFIO_DEVICE_PCI_HOT_RESET can be run in a loop and it can cause an OOM situation. This patch frees the earlier allocated memory first before overwriting 'pm_save' to prevent the mentioned memory leak.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 51ef3a004b1eb6241e56b3aa8495769a092a4dc2 < da426ad86027b849b877d4628b277ffbbd2f5325 ; affected 51ef3a004b1eb6241e56b3aa8495769a092a4dc2 < 4319f17fb8264ba39352b611dfa913a4d8c1d1a0 ; affected 51ef3a004b1eb6241e56b3aa8495769a092a4dc2 < 26ddd196e9eb264da8e1bdc4df8a94d62581c8b5 ; affected 51ef3a004b1eb6241e56b3aa8495769a092a4dc2 < c8a1f8bd586ee31020614b8d48b702ece3e2ae44 ; affected 51ef3a004b1eb6241e56b3aa8495769a092a4dc2 < eadf88ecf6ac7d6a9f47a76c6055d9a1987a8991
Linux · Linuxaffected 5.1 ; unaffected 0 < 5.1 ; unaffected 5.10.237 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.33 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 5.16.19 ≤ 5.16.* ; unaffected 5.17.2 ≤ 5.17.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD