CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-52492

4.4 MEDIUM Published 2024-03-11 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
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