vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2022-49300): linux vulnerability
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
6 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:C/A:C) | 2025-02-26 | 2025-03-03 | 2025-04-16 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nbd: fix race between nbd_alloc_config() and module removal
When nbd module is being removing, nbd_alloc_config() may be
called concurrently by nbd_genl_connect(), although try_module_get()
will return false, but nbd_alloc_config() doesn't handle it.
The race may lead to the leak of nbd_config and its related
resources (e.g, recv_workq) and oops in nbd_read_stat() due
to the unload of nbd module as shown below:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000040
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
CPU: 5 PID: 13840 Comm: kworker/u17:33 Not tainted 5.14.0+ #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
Workqueue: knbd16-recv recv_work [nbd]
RIP: 0010:nbd_read_stat.cold+0x130/0x1a4 [nbd]
Call Trace:
recv_work+0x3b/0xb0 [nbd]
process_one_work+0x1ed/0x390
worker_thread+0x4a/0x3d0
kthread+0x12a/0x150
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
Fixing it by checking the return value of try_module_get()
in nbd_alloc_config(). As nbd_alloc_config() may return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV),
assign nbd->config only when nbd_alloc_config() succeeds to ensure
the value of nbd->config is binary (valid or NULL).
Also adding a debug message to check the reference counter
of nbd_config during module removal.
Solution(s)
References
- CVE-2022-49300
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2022-49300
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/linus/c55b2b983b0fa012942c3eb16384b2b722caa810
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/122e4adaff2439f1cc18cc7e931980fa7560df5c
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/165cf2e0019fa6cedc75b456490c41494c34abb4
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2573f2375b64280be977431701ed5d33b75b9ad0
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2888fa41985f93ed0a6837cfbb06bcbfd7fa2314
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/71c142f910da44421213ade601bcbd23ceae19fa
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a7da4ced236ce6637fe70f14ca18e718d4bf9e9
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c55b2b983b0fa012942c3eb16384b2b722caa810
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d09525720dd5201756f698bee1076de9aefd4602
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49300

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