vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2022-49326): linux vulnerability
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
9 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C) | 2025-02-26 | 2025-03-03 | 2025-03-19 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
rtl818x: Prevent using not initialized queues
Using not existing queues can panic the kernel with rtl8180/rtl8185 cards.
Ignore the skb priority for those cards, they only have one tx queue. Pierre
Asselin ([email protected]) reported the kernel crash in the Gentoo forum:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1147832-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-25.html
He also confirmed that this patch fixes the issue. In summary this happened:
After updating wpa_supplicant from 2.9 to 2.10 the kernel crashed with a
"divide error: 0000" when connecting to an AP. Control port tx now tries to
use IEEE80211_AC_VO for the priority, which wpa_supplicants starts to use in
2.10.
Since only the rtl8187se part of the driver supports QoS, the priority
of the skb is set to IEEE80211_AC_BE (2) by mac80211 for rtl8180/rtl8185
cards.
rtl8180 is then unconditionally reading out the priority and finally crashes on
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl818x/rtl8180/dev.c line 544 without this
patch:
idx = (ring->idx + skb_queue_len(&ring->queue)) % ring->entries
"ring->entries" is zero for rtl8180/rtl8185 cards, tx_ring[2] never got
initialized.
Solution(s)
References
- CVE-2022-49326
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2022-49326
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/linus/746285cf81dc19502ab238249d75f5990bd2d231
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ad81ad0cf5744738ce94c8e64051ddd80a1734c
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/746285cf81dc19502ab238249d75f5990bd2d231
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/769ec2a824deae2f1268dfda14999a4d14d0d0c5
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/98e55b0b876bde3353f4e074883d66ecb55c65a3
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ad1981fc4de3afb7db3e8eb5a6a52d4c7d0d577
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d5e96cc1f1720019ce27b127a31695148d38bb0
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5dca2cd3f0239512da808598b4e70557eb4c2a1
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b8ce58ab80faaea015c206382041ff3bcf5495ff
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7e30dfc166d33470bba31a42f9bbc346e5409d5
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49326

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