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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2022-48838

Change History

New CVE Received by NIST 7/16/2024 9:15:11 AM

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Added Description

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

usb: gadget: Fix use-after-free bug by not setting udc->dev.driver

The syzbot fuzzer found a use-after-free bug:

BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in dev_uevent+0x712/0x780 drivers/base/core.c:2320
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88802b934098 by task udevd/3689

CPU: 2 PID: 3689 Comm: udevd Not tainted 5.17.0-rc4-syzkaller-00229-g4f12b742eb2b #0
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.14.0-2 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description.constprop.0.cold+0x8d/0x303 mm/kasan/report.c:255
 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:442 [inline]
 kasan_report.cold+0x83/0xdf mm/kasan/report.c:459
 dev_uevent+0x712/0x780 drivers/base/core.c:2320
 uevent_show+0x1b8/0x380 drivers/base/core.c:2391
 dev_attr_show+0x4b/0x90 drivers/base/core.c:2094

Although the bug manifested in the driver core, the real cause was a
race with the gadget core.  dev_uevent() does:

	if (dev->driver)
		add_uevent_var(env, "DRIVER=%s", dev->driver->name);

and between the test and the dereference of dev->driver, the gadget
core sets dev->driver to NULL.

The race wouldn't occur if the gadget core registered its devices on
a real bus, using the standard synchronization techniques of the
driver core.  However, it's not necessary to make such a large change
in order to fix this bug; all we need to do is make sure that
udc->dev.driver is always NULL.

In fact, there is no reason for udc->dev.driver ever to be set to
anything, let alone to the value it currently gets: the address of the
gadget's driver.  After all, a gadget driver only knows how to manage
a gadget, not how to manage a UDC.

This patch simply removes the statements in the gadget core that touch
udc->dev.driver.
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00bdd9bf1ac6d401ad926d3d8df41b9f1399f646 [No types assigned]
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16b1941eac2bd499f065a6739a40ce0011a3d740 [No types assigned]
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2015c23610cd0efadaeca4d3a8d1dae9a45aa35a [No types assigned]
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2282a6eb6d4e118e294e43dcc421e0e0fe4040b5 [No types assigned]
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/27d64436984fb8835a8b7e95993193cc478b162e [No types assigned]
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4325124dde6726267813c736fee61226f1d38f0b [No types assigned]
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/609a7119bffe3ddd7c93f2fa65be8917e02a0b7e [No types assigned]
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e2d3a7009e505e120805f449c832942660f3f7f3 [No types assigned]