CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-49726
5.5 MEDIUM
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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])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-908
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
clocksource: hyper-v: unexport __init-annotated hv_init_clocksource()
EXPORT_SYMBOL and __init is a bad combination because the .init.text
section is freed up after the initialization. Hence, modules cannot
use symbols annotated __init. The access to a freed symbol may end up
with kernel panic.
modpost used to detect it, but it has been broken for a decade.
Recently, I fixed modpost so it started to warn it again, then this
showed up in linux-next builds.
There are two ways to fix it:
- Remove __init
- Remove EXPORT_SYMBOL
I chose the latter for this case because the only in-tree call-site,
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c is never compiled as modular.
(CONFIG_HYPERVISOR_GUEST is boolean)
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.3 < 5.4.200)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.124)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.49)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.18.6)
• linux linux kernel 5.19
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0414eab7c78f3518143d383e448d44fc573ac6d2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/245b993d8f6c4e25f19191edfbd8080b645e12b1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/937fcbb55a1e48a6422e87e8f49422c92265f102 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cff3a7ce6e81418b6e8bac941779bbf5d342d626 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/db965e2757d95f695e606856418cd84003dd036d Patch