CVE-2022-48801

Summary

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

iio: buffer: Fix file related error handling in IIO_BUFFER_GET_FD_IOCTL

If we fail to copy the just created file descriptor to userland, we try to clean up by putting back 'fd' and freeing 'ib'. The code uses put_unused_fd() for the former which is wrong, as the file descriptor was already published by fd_install() which gets called internally by anon_inode_getfd().

This makes the error handling code leaving a half cleaned up file descriptor table around and a partially destructed 'file' object, allowing userland to play use-after-free tricks on us, by abusing the still usable fd and making the code operate on a dangling 'file->private_data' pointer.

Instead of leaving the kernel in a partially corrupted state, don't attempt to explicitly clean up and leave this to the process exit path that'll release any still valid fds, including the one created by the previous call to anon_inode_getfd(). Simply return -EFAULT to indicate the error.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinuxf73f7f4da581875f9b1f2fb8ebd1ab15ed634488 < b7f54894aa7517d2b6c797a499b9f491e9db9083affected
LinuxLinuxf73f7f4da581875f9b1f2fb8ebd1ab15ed634488 < 202071d2518537866d291aa7cf26af54e674f4d4affected
LinuxLinuxf73f7f4da581875f9b1f2fb8ebd1ab15ed634488 < c72ea20503610a4a7ba26c769357d31602769c01affected
LinuxLinux5.13affected
LinuxLinux0 < 5.13unaffected
LinuxLinux5.15.24 <= 5.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.16.10 <= 5.16.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.17 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

References