CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-40945
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-07-12
- Last modified
- 2026-10-15
- 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-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iommu: Return right value in iommu_sva_bind_device()
iommu_sva_bind_device() should return either a sva bond handle or an
ERR_PTR value in error cases. Existing drivers (idxd and uacce) only
check the return value with IS_ERR(). This could potentially lead to
a kernel NULL pointer dereference issue if the function returns NULL
instead of an error pointer.
In reality, this doesn't cause any problems because iommu_sva_bind_device()
only returns NULL when the kernel is not configured with CONFIG_IOMMU_SVA.
In this case, iommu_dev_enable_feature(dev, IOMMU_DEV_FEAT_SVA) will
return an error, and the device drivers won't call iommu_sva_bind_device()
at all.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.2 < 5.4.279)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.221)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.162)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.6.35)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.9.6)
• linux linux kernel 6.10
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2973b8e7d127754de9013177c41c0b5547406998 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61a96da9649a6b6a1a5d5bde9374b045fdb5c12e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6325eab6c108fed27f60ff51852e3eac0ba23f3f git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/700f564758882db7c039dfba9443fe762561a3f8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7388ae6f26c0ba95f70cc96bf9c5d5cb06c908b6 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89e8a2366e3bce584b6c01549d5019c5cda1205e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf34f8f66982a36e5cba0d05781b21ec9606b91e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2973b8e7d127754de9013177c41c0b5547406998 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61a96da9649a6b6a1a5d5bde9374b045fdb5c12e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/700f564758882db7c039dfba9443fe762561a3f8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7388ae6f26c0ba95f70cc96bf9c5d5cb06c908b6 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89e8a2366e3bce584b6c01549d5019c5cda1205e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf34f8f66982a36e5cba0d05781b21ec9606b91e Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00028.html lists.debian.org
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-265688.html cert-portal.siemens.com
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-355557.html cert-portal.siemens.com
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-613116.html cert-portal.siemens.com
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-784472.html cert-portal.siemens.com