CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-48755
5.5 MEDIUM
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- 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
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
powerpc64/bpf: Limit 'ldbrx' to processors compliant with ISA v2.06
Johan reported the below crash with test_bpf on ppc64 e5500:
test_bpf: #296 ALU_END_FROM_LE 64: 0x0123456789abcdef -> 0x67452301 jited:1
Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 4 [#1]
BE PAGE_SIZE=4K SMP NR_CPUS=24 QEMU e500
Modules linked in: test_bpf(+)
CPU: 0 PID: 76 Comm: insmod Not tainted 5.14.0-03771-g98c2059e008a-dirty #1
NIP: 8000000000061c3c LR: 80000000006dea64 CTR: 8000000000061c18
REGS: c0000000032d3420 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (5.14.0-03771-g98c2059e008a-dirty)
MSR: 0000000080089000 <EE,ME> CR: 88002822 XER: 20000000 IRQMASK: 0
<...>
NIP [8000000000061c3c] 0x8000000000061c3c
LR [80000000006dea64] .__run_one+0x104/0x17c [test_bpf]
Call Trace:
.__run_one+0x60/0x17c [test_bpf] (unreliable)
.test_bpf_init+0x6a8/0xdc8 [test_bpf]
.do_one_initcall+0x6c/0x28c
.do_init_module+0x68/0x28c
.load_module+0x2460/0x2abc
.__do_sys_init_module+0x120/0x18c
.system_call_exception+0x110/0x1b8
system_call_common+0xf0/0x210
--- interrupt: c00 at 0x101d0acc
<...>
---[ end trace 47b2bf19090bb3d0 ]---
Illegal instruction
The illegal instruction turned out to be 'ldbrx' emitted for
BPF_FROM_[L|B]E, which was only introduced in ISA v2.06. Guard use of
the same and implement an alternative approach for older processors.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.8 < 5.10.96)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.19)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.16.5)
• linux linux kernel 5.17
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/129c71829d7f46423d95c19e8d87ce956d4c6e1c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3bfbc00587dc883eaed383558ae512a351c2cd09 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f5f766d5f7f95a69a630da3544a1a0cee1cdddf Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aaccfeeee1630b155e8ff0d6c449d3de1ef86e73 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/129c71829d7f46423d95c19e8d87ce956d4c6e1c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3bfbc00587dc883eaed383558ae512a351c2cd09 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f5f766d5f7f95a69a630da3544a1a0cee1cdddf Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aaccfeeee1630b155e8ff0d6c449d3de1ef86e73 Patch