CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-40945

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-07-12 Modified 2026-10-15 Official page ↗
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