CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-49021
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-10-21
- 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:
net: phy: fix null-ptr-deref while probe() failed
I got a null-ptr-deref report as following when doing fault injection test:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000058
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI
CPU: 1 PID: 253 Comm: 507-spi-dm9051 Tainted: G B N 6.1.0-rc3+
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:klist_put+0x2d/0xd0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
klist_remove+0xf1/0x1c0
device_release_driver_internal+0x23e/0x2d0
bus_remove_device+0x1bd/0x240
device_del+0x357/0x770
phy_device_remove+0x11/0x30
mdiobus_unregister+0xa5/0x140
release_nodes+0x6a/0xa0
devres_release_all+0xf8/0x150
device_unbind_cleanup+0x19/0xd0
//probe path:
phy_device_register()
device_add()
phy_connect
phy_attach_direct() //set device driver
probe() //it's failed, driver is not bound
device_bind_driver() // probe failed, it's not called
//remove path:
phy_device_remove()
device_del()
device_release_driver_internal()
__device_release_driver() //dev->drv is not NULL
klist_remove() <- knode_driver is not added yet, cause null-ptr-deref
In phy_attach_direct(), after setting the 'dev->driver', probe() fails,
device_bind_driver() is not called, so the knode_driver->n_klist is not
set, then it causes null-ptr-deref in __device_release_driver() while
deleting device. Fix this by setting dev->driver to NULL in the error
path in phy_attach_direct().
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.14 < 4.9.335)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.14.301)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.268)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.226)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.158)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.82)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.0.12)
• linux linux kernel 6.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0744c7be4de564db03e24527b2e096b7e0e20972 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/369eb2c9f1f72adbe91e0ea8efb130f0a2ba11a6 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e21f85d87c836462bb52ef2078ea561260935c1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/51d7f6b20fae8bae64ad1136f1e30d1fd5ba78f7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7730904f50c7187dd16c76949efb56b5fb55cd57 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8aaafe0f71314f46a066382a047ba8bb3840d273 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eaa5722549ac2604ffa56c2e946acc83226f130c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe6bc99c27c21348f548966118867ed26a9a372c Patch