CVE-2022-50400

Summary

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

staging: greybus: audio_helper: remove unused and wrong debugfs usage

In the greybus audio_helper code, the debugfs file for the dapm has the potential to be removed and memory will be leaked. There is also the very real potential for this code to remove ALL debugfs entries from the system, and it seems like this is what will really happen if this code ever runs. This all is very wrong as the greybus audio driver did not create this debugfs file, the sound core did and controls the lifespan of it.

So remove all of the debugfs logic from the audio_helper code as there's no way it could be correct. If this really is needed, it can come back with a fixup for the incorrect usage of the debugfs_lookup() call which is what caused this to be noticed at all.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux510e340efe0cbd379cf1ff3490d088c3299749b1 < d0febad83e29d85bb66e4f5cac0115b022403338affected
LinuxLinux510e340efe0cbd379cf1ff3490d088c3299749b1 < 4dab0d27a4211a27135a6899d6c737e6e0759a11affected
LinuxLinux510e340efe0cbd379cf1ff3490d088c3299749b1 < 5699afbff1fa2972722e863906c0320d55dd4d58affected
LinuxLinux510e340efe0cbd379cf1ff3490d088c3299749b1 < d835fa49d9589a780ff0d001bb7e6323238a4afbaffected
LinuxLinux510e340efe0cbd379cf1ff3490d088c3299749b1 < d517cdeb904ddc0cbebcc959d43596426cac40b0affected
LinuxLinux5.9affected
LinuxLinux0 < 5.9unaffected
LinuxLinux5.10.150 <= 5.10.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.15.75 <= 5.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.19.17 <= 5.19.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.0.3 <= 6.0.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.1 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

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

References