CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-49492

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-02-26 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2025-02-26
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
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
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: nvme-pci: fix a NULL pointer dereference in nvme_alloc_admin_tags In nvme_alloc_admin_tags, the admin_q can be set to an error (typically -ENOMEM) if the blk_mq_init_queue call fails to set up the queue, which is checked immediately after the call. However, when we return the error message up the stack, to nvme_reset_work the error takes us to nvme_remove_dead_ctrl() nvme_dev_disable() nvme_suspend_queue(&dev->queues[0]). Here, we only check that the admin_q is non-NULL, rather than not an error or NULL, and begin quiescing a queue that never existed, leading to bad / NULL pointer dereference.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 4.9.318) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.14.283) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.247) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.198) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.121) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.46) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.17.14) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.18 < 5.18.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References