Attacker Value
Unknown
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Exploitability
Unknown
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User Interaction
None
Privileges Required
Low
Attack Vector
Local
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CVE-2022-49010

Disclosure Date: October 21, 2024
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Description

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

hwmon: (coretemp) Check for null before removing sysfs attrs

If coretemp_add_core() gets an error then pdata->core_data[indx]
is already NULL and has been kfreed. Don’t pass that to
sysfs_remove_group() as that will crash in sysfs_remove_group().

[Shortened for readability]
[91854.020159] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename ‘/devices/platform/coretemp.0/hwmon/hwmon2/temp20_label’
<cpu offline>
[91855.126115] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000188
[91855.165103] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[91855.194506] #PF: error_code(0x0000) – not-present page
[91855.224445] PGD 0 P4D 0
[91855.238508] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI

[91855.342716] RIP: 0010:sysfs_remove_group+0xc/0x80

[91855.796571] Call Trace:
[91855.810524] coretemp_cpu_offline+0x12b/0x1dd [coretemp]
[91855.841738] ? coretemp_cpu_online+0x180/0x180 [coretemp]
[91855.871107] cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x105/0x4b0
[91855.893432] cpuhp_thread_fun+0x8e/0x150

Fix this by checking for NULL first.

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CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Base Score:
5.5 Medium
Impact Score:
3.6
Exploitability Score:
1.8
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector (AV):
Local
Attack Complexity (AC):
Low
Privileges Required (PR):
Low
User Interaction (UI):
None
Scope (S):
Unchanged
Confidentiality (C):
None
Integrity (I):
None
Availability (A):
High

General Information

Vendors

  • linux

Products

  • linux kernel,
  • linux kernel 6.1
Technical Analysis