vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2022-48871): linux vulnerability

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 21, 2024
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Sep 1, 2025

Description

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

tty: serial: qcom-geni-serial: fix slab-out-of-bounds on RX FIFO buffer

Driver's probe allocates memory for RX FIFO (port->rx_fifo) based on
default RX FIFO depth, e.g. 16. Later during serial startup the
qcom_geni_serial_port_setup() updates the RX FIFO depth
(port->rx_fifo_depth) to match real device capabilities, e.g. to 32.

The RX UART handle code will read "port->rx_fifo_depth" number of words
into "port->rx_fifo" buffer, thus exceeding the bounds. This can be
observed in certain configurations with Qualcomm Bluetooth HCI UART
device and KASAN:

Bluetooth: hci0: QCA Product ID :0x00000010
Bluetooth: hci0: QCA SOC Version :0x400a0200
Bluetooth: hci0: QCA ROM Version :0x00000200
Bluetooth: hci0: QCA Patch Version:0x00000d2b
Bluetooth: hci0: QCA controller version 0x02000200
Bluetooth: hci0: QCA Downloading qca/htbtfw20.tlv
bluetooth hci0: Direct firmware load for qca/htbtfw20.tlv failed with error -2
Bluetooth: hci0: QCA Failed to request file: qca/htbtfw20.tlv (-2)
Bluetooth: hci0: QCA Failed to download patch (-2)
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in handle_rx_uart+0xa8/0x18c
Write of size 4 at addr ffff279347d578c0 by task swapper/0/0

CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.1.0-rt5-00350-gb2450b7e00be-dirty #26
Hardware name: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Robotics RB5 (DT)
Call trace:
dump_backtrace.part.0+0xe0/0xf0
show_stack+0x18/0x40
dump_stack_lvl+0x8c/0xb8
print_report+0x188/0x488
kasan_report+0xb4/0x100
__asan_store4+0x80/0xa4
handle_rx_uart+0xa8/0x18c
qcom_geni_serial_handle_rx+0x84/0x9c
qcom_geni_serial_isr+0x24c/0x760
__handle_irq_event_percpu+0x108/0x500
handle_irq_event+0x6c/0x110
handle_fasteoi_irq+0x138/0x2cc
generic_handle_domain_irq+0x48/0x64

If the RX FIFO depth changes after probe, be sure to resize the buffer.

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