CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-48713

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-06-20 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2024-06-20
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf/x86/intel/pt: Fix crash with stop filters in single-range mode Add a check for !buf->single before calling pt_buffer_region_size in a place where a missing check can cause a kernel crash. Fixes a bug introduced by commit 670638477aed ("perf/x86/intel/pt: Opportunistically use single range output mode"), which added a support for PT single-range output mode. Since that commit if a PT stop filter range is hit while tracing, the kernel will crash because of a null pointer dereference in pt_handle_status due to calling pt_buffer_region_size without a ToPA configured. The commit which introduced single-range mode guarded almost all uses of the ToPA buffer variables with checks of the buf->single variable, but missed the case where tracing was stopped by the PT hardware, which happens when execution hits a configured stop filter. Tested that hitting a stop filter while PT recording successfully records a trace with this patch but crashes without this patch.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.99) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.22) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.16.8) • linux linux kernel 5.17

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References