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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...

Unreviewed Published May 22, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated May 22, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: encx24j600: check error in devm_regmap_init_encx24j600

devm_regmap_init may return error which caused by like out of memory,
this will results in null pointer dereference later when reading
or writing register:

general protection fault in encx24j600_spi_probe
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000090-0x0000000000000097]
CPU: 0 PID: 286 Comm: spi-encx24j600- Not tainted 5.15.0-rc2-00142-g9978db750e31-dirty #11 9c53a778c1306b1b02359f3c2bbedc0222cba652
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:regcache_cache_bypass drivers/base/regmap/regcache.c:540
Code: 54 41 89 f4 55 53 48 89 fb 48 83 ec 08 e8 26 94 a8 fe 48 8d bb a0 00 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <80> 3c 02 00 0f 85 4a 03 00 00 4c 8d ab b0 00 00 00 48 8b ab a0 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc900010476b8 EFLAGS: 00010207
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: fffffffffffffff4 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000012 RSI: ffff888002de0000 RDI: 0000000000000094
RBP: ffff888013c9a000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: fffffbfff3f9cc6a
R10: ffffc900010476e8 R11: fffffbfff3f9cc69 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 000000000000000a R14: ffff888013c9af54 R15: ffff888013c9ad08
FS: 00007ffa984ab580(0000) GS:ffff88801fe00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000055a6384136c8 CR3: 000000003bbe6003 CR4: 0000000000770ef0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
encx24j600_spi_probe drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/encx24j600.c:459
spi_probe drivers/spi/spi.c:397
really_probe drivers/base/dd.c:517
__driver_probe_device drivers/base/dd.c:751
driver_probe_device drivers/base/dd.c:782
__device_attach_driver drivers/base/dd.c:899
bus_for_each_drv drivers/base/bus.c:427
__device_attach drivers/base/dd.c:971
bus_probe_device drivers/base/bus.c:487
device_add drivers/base/core.c:3364
__spi_add_device drivers/spi/spi.c:599
spi_add_device drivers/spi/spi.c:641
spi_new_device drivers/spi/spi.c:717
new_device_store+0x18c/0x1f1 [spi_stub 4e02719357f1ff33f5a43d00630982840568e85e]
dev_attr_store drivers/base/core.c:2074
sysfs_kf_write fs/sysfs/file.c:139
kernfs_fop_write_iter fs/kernfs/file.c:300
new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:508 (discriminator 4)
vfs_write fs/read_write.c:594
ksys_write fs/read_write.c:648
do_syscall_64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:113

Add error check in devm_regmap_init_encx24j600 to avoid this situation.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 22, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 22, 2024
Last updated May 22, 2024

Severity

Unknown

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2021-47440

GHSA ID

GHSA-h8c2-87vw-jwfw

Source code

No known source code

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