vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2024-53092: kernel: virtio_pci: Fix admin vq cleanup by using correct info pointer

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Nov 21, 2024
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

Description

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

virtio_pci: Fix admin vq cleanup by using correct info pointer

vp_modern_avq_cleanup() and vp_del_vqs() clean up admin vq
resources by virtio_pci_vq_info pointer. The info pointer of admin
vq is stored in vp_dev->admin_vq.info instead of vp_dev->vqs[].
Using the info pointer from vp_dev->vqs[] for admin vq causes a
kernel NULL pointer dereference bug.
In vp_modern_avq_cleanup() and vp_del_vqs(), get the info pointer
from vp_dev->admin_vq.info for admin vq to clean up the resources.
Also make info ptr as argument of vp_del_vq() to be symmetric with
vp_setup_vq().

vp_reset calls vp_modern_avq_cleanup, and causes the Call Trace:
==================================================================
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address:0000000000000000
...
CPU: 49 UID: 0 PID: 4439 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 6.11.0-rc5 #1
RIP: 0010:vp_reset+0x57/0x90 [virtio_pci]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
...
? vp_reset+0x57/0x90 [virtio_pci]
? vp_reset+0x38/0x90 [virtio_pci]
virtio_reset_device+0x1d/0x30
remove_vq_common+0x1c/0x1a0 [virtio_net]
virtnet_remove+0xa1/0xc0 [virtio_net]
virtio_dev_remove+0x46/0xa0
...
virtio_pci_driver_exit+0x14/0x810 [virtio_pci]
==================================================================

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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