CVE-2022-48884
MEDIUMDescription
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: Fix command stats access after free Command may fail while driver is reloading and can't accept FW commands till command interface is reinitialized. Such command failure is being logged to command stats. This results in NULL pointer access as command stats structure is being freed and reallocated during mlx5 devlink reload (see kernel log below). Fix it by making command stats statically allocated on driver probe. Kernel log: [ 2394.808802] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 000000000002a9c0 [ 2394.810610] PGD 0 P4D 0 [ 2394.811811] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP NOPTI ... [ 2394.815482] RIP: 0010:native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x183/0x1d0 ... [ 2394.829505] Call Trace: [ 2394.830667] _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x23/0x26 [ 2394.831858] cmd_status_err+0x55/0x110 [mlx5_core] [ 2394.833020] mlx5_access_reg+0xe7/0x150 [mlx5_core] [ 2394.834175] mlx5_query_port_ptys+0x78/0xa0 [mlx5_core] [ 2394.835337] mlx5e_ethtool_get_link_ksettings+0x74/0x590 [mlx5_core] [ 2394.836454] ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x140/0x1c0 [ 2394.837562] __rh_call_get_link_ksettings+0x33/0x100 [ 2394.838663] ? __rtnl_unlock+0x25/0x50 [ 2394.839755] __ethtool_get_link_ksettings+0x72/0x150 [ 2394.840862] duplex_show+0x6e/0xc0 [ 2394.841963] dev_attr_show+0x1c/0x40 [ 2394.843048] sysfs_kf_seq_show+0x9b/0x100 [ 2394.844123] seq_read+0x153/0x410 [ 2394.845187] vfs_read+0x91/0x140 [ 2394.846226] ksys_read+0x4f/0xb0 [ 2394.847234] do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x1a0 [ 2394.848228] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x65/0xca
How to fix
Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.
CVSS v3 Vector
Exploitability
Impact
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Exploit Intelligence
Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 11% of all known CVEs.
References
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| CVE-2023-21758 | High | 7.5 | 92% | - | Fix |
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| CVE-2014-3470 | Medium | 4.3 | 86% | - | Fix |
| CVE-2021-44224 | High | 8.2 | 82% | - | Fix |
| CVE-2016-0742 | High | 7.5 | 82% | - | Fix |
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