extcon: Modify extcon device to be created after driver data is set (Linux Linux)

CVE-2022-49308
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.28 % · percentile 21 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: extcon: Modify extcon device to be created after driver data is set Currently, someone can invoke the sysfs such as state_show() intermittently before dev_set_drvdata() is done. And it can be a cause of kernel Oops because of edev is Null at that time. So modified the driver registration to after setting drviver data. - Oops's backtrace. Backtrace: [<c067865c>] (state_show) from [<c05222e8>] (dev_attr_show) [<c05222c0>] (dev_attr_show) from [<c02c66e0>] (sysfs_kf_seq_show) [<c02c6648>] (sysfs_kf_seq_show) from [<c02c496c>] (kernfs_seq_show) [<c02c4938>] (kernfs_seq_show) from [<c025e2a0>] (seq_read) [<c025e11c>] (seq_read) from [<c02c50a0>] (kernfs_fop_read) [<c02c5064>] (kernfs_fop_read) from [<c0231cac>] (__vfs_read) [<c0231c5c>] (__vfs_read) from [<c0231ee0>] (vfs_read) [<c0231e34>] (vfs_read) from [<c0232464>] (ksys_read) [<c02323f0>] (ksys_read) from [<c02324fc>] (sys_read) [<c02324e4>] (sys_read) from [<c00091d0>] (__sys_trace_return)

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 de55d8716ac50a356cea736c29bb7db5ac3d0190 < 6e721f3ad0535b24f19a62420f4da95212cf069c ; affected de55d8716ac50a356cea736c29bb7db5ac3d0190 < cb81ea998c461868d1168411a867d8ffee12f23f ; affected de55d8716ac50a356cea736c29bb7db5ac3d0190 < d472c78cc82999d07bd09193a6718016ce9cd386 ; affected de55d8716ac50a356cea736c29bb7db5ac3d0190 < abf3b222614f49f98e606fccdd269161c0d70204 ; affected de55d8716ac50a356cea736c29bb7db5ac3d0190 < 368e68ad6da4317fc4170e8d92b51c13d1bfe7a7 ; affected de55d8716ac50a356cea736c29bb7db5ac3d0190 < 35ff1ac55d301efb3f467cf5426faaeb3452994b
Linux · Linuxaffected 3.5 ; unaffected 0 < 3.5 ; unaffected 4.14.283 ≤ 4.14.* ; unaffected 4.19.247 ≤ 4.19.* ; unaffected 5.4.198 ≤ 5.4.* ; unaffected 5.10.122 ≤ 5.10.*

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