Bug 2084435 (CVE-2022-1975) - CVE-2022-1975 kernel: sleep in atomic bug when firmware download timeout
Summary: CVE-2022-1975 kernel: sleep in atomic bug when firmware download timeout
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2022-1975
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 2092095 2092096
Blocks: 2084436
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Reported: 2022-05-12 06:52 UTC by TEJ RATHI
Modified: 2023-03-14 18:09 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: kernel 5.18 rc6
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Last Closed: 2022-08-30 10:55:54 UTC
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Description TEJ RATHI 2022-05-12 06:52:50 UTC 
The sleep-in-atomic bug in /net/nfc/netlink.c of linux that allows attacker to crash linux kernel by simulating nfc device from user-space.

[Root cause]

The root cause of this sleep-in-atomic bug is that nlmsg_new with GFP_KERNEL parameter
is called in fw_dnld_timeout which is a timer handler.

[Patch]

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4071bf121d59944d5cd2238de0642f3d7995a997
Comment 2 Rohit Keshri 2022-05-31 19:25:23 UTC 
There was no shipped kernel version that was seen affected by this problem. These files are not built in our source code.
Comment 10 Product Security DevOps Team 2022-08-30 10:55:51 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2022-1975
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