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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2022-49444

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 2/26/2025 2:01:20 AM

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Added Description

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

module: fix [e_shstrndx].sh_size=0 OOB access

It is trivial to craft a module to trigger OOB access in this line:

	if (info->secstrings[strhdr->sh_size - 1] != '\0') {

BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffc90000aa0fff
PGD 100000067 P4D 100000067 PUD 100066067 PMD 10436f067 PTE 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
CPU: 7 PID: 1215 Comm: insmod Not tainted 5.18.0-rc5-00007-g9bf578647087-dirty #10
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-4.fc34 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:load_module+0x19b/0x2391

[rebased patch onto modules-next]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09cb6663618a74fe5572a4931ecbf098832e79ec
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/391e982bfa632b8315235d8be9c0a81374c6a19c
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/45a76414b6d8b8b39c23fea53b9d20e831ae72a0
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/921630e2e5124a04158129a8f22f4b425e61a858