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CVE-2022-48762

2024-06-2012:15:14
Google
osv.dev
4
linux kernel
arm64
vulnerability
cve-2022-48762
load_unaligned_zeropad
fix
data addr register indices
mte-enabled qemu image
kernel null pointer
dereference
crash

AI Score

6.2

Confidence

Low

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

arm64: extable: fix load_unaligned_zeropad() reg indices

In ex_handler_load_unaligned_zeropad() we erroneously extract the data and
addr register indices from ex->type rather than ex->data. As ex->type will
contain EX_TYPE_LOAD_UNALIGNED_ZEROPAD (i.e. 4):

  • We’ll always treat X0 as the address register, since EX_DATA_REG_ADDR is
    extracted from bits [9:5]. Thus, we may attempt to dereference an
    arbitrary address as X0 may hold an arbitrary value.
  • We’ll always treat X4 as the data register, since EX_DATA_REG_DATA is
    extracted from bits [4:0]. Thus we will corrupt X4 and cause arbitrary
    behaviour within load_unaligned_zeropad() and its caller.

Fix this by extracting both values from ex->data as originally intended.

On an MTE-enabled QEMU image we are hitting the following crash:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000
Call trace:
fixup_exception+0xc4/0x108
__do_kernel_fault+0x3c/0x268
do_tag_check_fault+0x3c/0x104
do_mem_abort+0x44/0xf4
el1_abort+0x40/0x64
el1h_64_sync_handler+0x60/0xa0
el1h_64_sync+0x7c/0x80
link_path_walk+0x150/0x344
path_openat+0xa0/0x7dc
do_filp_open+0xb8/0x168
do_sys_openat2+0x88/0x17c
__arm64_sys_openat+0x74/0xa0
invoke_syscall+0x48/0x148
el0_svc_common+0xb8/0xf8
do_el0_svc+0x28/0x88
el0_svc+0x24/0x84
el0t_64_sync_handler+0x88/0xec
el0t_64_sync+0x1b4/0x1b8
Code: f8695a69 71007d1f 540000e0 927df12a (f940014a)

AI Score

6.2

Confidence

Low