CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-52492
4.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-03-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 4.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dmaengine: fix NULL pointer in channel unregistration function
__dma_async_device_channel_register() can fail. In case of failure,
chan->local is freed (with free_percpu()), and chan->local is nullified.
When dma_async_device_unregister() is called (because of managed API or
intentionally by DMA controller driver), channels are unconditionally
unregistered, leading to this NULL pointer:
[ 1.318693] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000000000d0
[...]
[ 1.484499] Call trace:
[ 1.486930] device_del+0x40/0x394
[ 1.490314] device_unregister+0x20/0x7c
[ 1.494220] __dma_async_device_channel_unregister+0x68/0xc0
Look at dma_async_device_register() function error path, channel device
unregistration is done only if chan->local is not NULL.
Then add the same condition at the beginning of
__dma_async_device_channel_unregister() function, to avoid NULL pointer
issue whatever the API used to reach this function.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.6 < 5.10.210)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.149)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.76)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.15)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.7.3)
• debian debian linux 10.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/047fce470412ab64cb7345f9ff5d06919078ad79 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ab32986a0b9e329eb7f8f04dd57cc127f797c08 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f0ccfad2031eddcc510caf4e57f2d4aa2d8a50b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9263fd2a63487c6d04cbb7b74a48fb12e1e352d0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9de69732dde4e443c1c7f89acbbed2c45a6a8e17 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5c24d94512f1b288262beda4d3dcb9629222fc7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/047fce470412ab64cb7345f9ff5d06919078ad79 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ab32986a0b9e329eb7f8f04dd57cc127f797c08 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f0ccfad2031eddcc510caf4e57f2d4aa2d8a50b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9263fd2a63487c6d04cbb7b74a48fb12e1e352d0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9de69732dde4e443c1c7f89acbbed2c45a6a8e17 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5c24d94512f1b288262beda4d3dcb9629222fc7 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00017.html Mailing List