vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2022-49295): linux vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Feb 26, 2025
Added
Mar 3, 2025
Modified
Jun 12, 2025

Description

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

nbd: call genl_unregister_family() first in nbd_cleanup()

Otherwise there may be race between module removal and the handling of
netlink command, which can lead to the oops as shown below:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000098
Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP PTI
CPU: 1 PID: 31299 Comm: nbd-client Tainted: G E 5.14.0-rc4
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
RIP: 0010:down_write+0x1a/0x50
Call Trace:
start_creating+0x89/0x130
debugfs_create_dir+0x1b/0x130
nbd_start_device+0x13d/0x390 [nbd]
nbd_genl_connect+0x42f/0x748 [nbd]
genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.0+0xec/0x150
genl_rcv_msg+0xe5/0x1e0
netlink_rcv_skb+0x55/0x100
genl_rcv+0x29/0x40
netlink_unicast+0x1a8/0x250
netlink_sendmsg+0x21b/0x430
____sys_sendmsg+0x2a4/0x2d0
___sys_sendmsg+0x81/0xc0
__sys_sendmsg+0x62/0xb0
__x64_sys_sendmsg+0x1f/0x30
do_syscall_64+0x3b/0xc0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
Modules linked in: nbd(E-)

Solution(s)

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