vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2022-48890): linux-azure vulnerability
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | 2024-08-21 | 2024-11-19 | 2025-01-30 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: storvsc: Fix swiotlb bounce buffer leak in confidential VM
storvsc_queuecommand() maps the scatter/gather list using scsi_dma_map(),
which in a confidential VM allocates swiotlb bounce buffers. If the I/O
submission fails in storvsc_do_io(), the I/O is typically retried by higher
level code, but the bounce buffer memory is never freed. The mostly like
cause of I/O submission failure is a full VMBus channel ring buffer, which
is not uncommon under high I/O loads. Eventually enough bounce buffer
memory leaks that the confidential VM can't do any I/O. The same problem
can arise in a non-confidential VM with kernel boot parameter
swiotlb=force.
Fix this by doing scsi_dma_unmap() in the case of an I/O submission
error, which frees the bounce buffer memory.
Solution(s)
References
- CVE-2022-48890
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2022-48890
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/linus/67ff3d0a49f3d445c3922e30a54e03c161da561e
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/67ff3d0a49f3d445c3922e30a54e03c161da561e
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87c71e88f6a6619ffb1ff88f84dff48ef6d57adb
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48890

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