vulnerability
Debian: CVE-2022-48862: linux -- security update
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | 07/30/2024 | 07/30/2024 | 01/28/2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vhost: fix hung thread due to erroneous iotlb entries
In vhost_iotlb_add_range_ctx(), range size can overflow to 0 when
start is 0 and last is ULONG_MAX. One instance where it can happen
is when userspace sends an IOTLB message with iova=size=uaddr=0
(vhost_process_iotlb_msg). So, an entry with size = 0, start = 0,
last = ULONG_MAX ends up in the iotlb. Next time a packet is sent,
iotlb_access_ok() loops indefinitely due to that erroneous entry.
Call Trace:
iotlb_access_ok+0x21b/0x3e0 drivers/vhost/vhost.c:1340
vq_meta_prefetch+0xbc/0x280 drivers/vhost/vhost.c:1366
vhost_transport_do_send_pkt+0xe0/0xfd0 drivers/vhost/vsock.c:104
vhost_worker+0x23d/0x3d0 drivers/vhost/vhost.c:372
kthread+0x2e9/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:377
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295
Reported by syzbot at:
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=0abd373e2e50d704db87
To fix this, do two things:
1. Return -EINVAL in vhost_chr_write_iter() when userspace asks to map
a range with size 0.
2. Fix vhost_iotlb_add_range_ctx() to handle the range [0, ULONG_MAX]
by splitting it into two entries.
Solution

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