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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2024-46715

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 9/18/2024 3:15:03 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

driver: iio: add missing checks on iio_info's callback access

Some callbacks from iio_info structure are accessed without any check, so
if a driver doesn't implement them trying to access the corresponding
sysfs entries produce a kernel oops such as:

[ 2203.527791] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 when execute
[...]
[ 2203.783416] Call trace:
[ 2203.783429]  iio_read_channel_info_avail from dev_attr_show+0x18/0x48
[ 2203.789807]  dev_attr_show from sysfs_kf_seq_show+0x90/0x120
[ 2203.794181]  sysfs_kf_seq_show from seq_read_iter+0xd0/0x4e4
[ 2203.798555]  seq_read_iter from vfs_read+0x238/0x2a0
[ 2203.802236]  vfs_read from ksys_read+0xa4/0xd4
[ 2203.805385]  ksys_read from ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x54
[ 2203.809135] Exception stack(0xe0badfa8 to 0xe0badff0)
[ 2203.812880] dfa0:                   00000003 b6f10f80 00000003 b6eab000 00020000 00000000
[ 2203.819746] dfc0: 00000003 b6f10f80 7ff00000 00000003 00000003 00000000 00020000 00000000
[ 2203.826619] dfe0: b6e1bc88 bed80958 b6e1bc94 b6e1bcb0
[ 2203.830363] Code: bad PC value
[ 2203.832695] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0cc7e0ee31e5c44904e98e2229d591e093282a70 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72f022ebb9deac28663fa4c04ba315ed5d6654d1 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c4ec8dedca961db056ec85cb7ca8c9f7e2e92252 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc537a72f64890d883d24ae4ac58733fc5bc523d [No types assigned]