KVM: Don't null dereference ops->destroy (Linux Linux)

CVE-2022-49568
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.30 % · percentile 22 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: Don't null dereference ops->destroy A KVM device cleanup happens in either of two callbacks: 1) destroy() which is called when the VM is being destroyed; 2) release() which is called when a device fd is closed. Most KVM devices use 1) but Book3s's interrupt controller KVM devices (XICS, XIVE, XIVE-native) use 2) as they need to close and reopen during the machine execution. The error handling in kvm_ioctl_create_device() assumes destroy() is always defined which leads to NULL dereference as discovered by Syzkaller. This adds a checks for destroy!=NULL and adds a missing release(). This is not changing kvm_destroy_devices() as devices with defined release() should have been removed from the KVM devices list by then.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

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:HCISA-ADP
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)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 852b6d57dc7fa378019786fa84727036e56839ea < 170465715a60cbb7876e6b961b21bd3225469da8 ; affected 852b6d57dc7fa378019786fa84727036e56839ea < 3616776bc51cd3262bb1be60cc01c72e0a1959cf ; affected 852b6d57dc7fa378019786fa84727036e56839ea < e91665fbbf3ccb268b268a7d71a6513538d813ac ; affected 852b6d57dc7fa378019786fa84727036e56839ea < d4a5a79b780891c5cbdfdc6124d46fdf8d13dba1 ; affected 852b6d57dc7fa378019786fa84727036e56839ea < e8bc2427018826e02add7b0ed0fc625a60390ae5
Linux · Linuxaffected 3.10 ; unaffected 0 < 3.10 ; unaffected 5.4.210 ≤ 5.4.* ; unaffected 5.10.134 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.58 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 5.18.15 ≤ 5.18.*

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