CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-49444
7.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-02-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
module: fix [e_shstrndx].sh_size=0 OOB access
It is trivial to craft a module to trigger OOB access in this line:
if (info->secstrings[strhdr->sh_size - 1] != '\0') {
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffc90000aa0fff
PGD 100000067 P4D 100000067 PUD 100066067 PMD 10436f067 PTE 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
CPU: 7 PID: 1215 Comm: insmod Not tainted 5.18.0-rc5-00007-g9bf578647087-dirty #10
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-4.fc34 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:load_module+0x19b/0x2391
[rebased patch onto modules-next]
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.4.110 < 5.5)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.10.26 < 5.11)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11.3 < 5.15.54)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.17.14)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.18 < 5.18.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09cb6663618a74fe5572a4931ecbf098832e79ec Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/391e982bfa632b8315235d8be9c0a81374c6a19c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/45a76414b6d8b8b39c23fea53b9d20e831ae72a0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/921630e2e5124a04158129a8f22f4b425e61a858 Patch