Bug 2153066 (CVE-2022-3106)

Summary:	CVE-2022-3106 kernel: sfc_ef100: NULL pointer dereference in ef100_update_stats()
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Sage McTaggart <amctagga>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Nobody <nobody>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	acaringi, allarkin, bhu, chwhite, crwood, dbohanno, ddepaula, debarbos, dfreiber, dvlasenk, ezulian, hkrzesin, jarod, jburrell, jdenham, jfaracco, jferlan, jforbes, jlelli, joe.lawrence, jshortt, jstancek, jwyatt, kcarcia, kernel-mgr, ldoskova, lgoncalv, lleshchi, lzampier, mcascell, nmurray, ptalbert, qzhao, rogbas, rrobaina, rvrbovsk, rysulliv, scweaver, tyberry, vkumar, walters, wcosta, williams, wmealing, ycote
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	kernel 5.16-rc6	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Bug Depends On:	2006441, 2042798, 2214247, 2214248
Bug Blocks:	2153051

Description Sage McTaggart 2022-12-13 22:07:18 UTC

[Suggested description]
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.16-rc6.
ef100_update_stats in drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef100_nic.c lacks check
of the return value of kmalloc().

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[VulnerabilityType Other]
NULL Pointer Dereference

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[Vendor of Product]
the development group

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[Affected Product Code Base]
Linux kernel - 5.16-rc6

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[Reference]
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?h=v5.19-rc2&id=407ecd1bd726f240123f704620d46e285ff30dd9

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[Discoverer]
Jiasheng Jiang

Comment 4 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2023-06-12 09:19:12 UTC

Upstream commit:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/407ecd1bd726f240123f704620d46e285ff30dd9

Comment 6 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2023-06-12 09:29:03 UTC

This issue was fixed upstream in version 5.16. The kernel packages as shipped in the following Red Hat products were previously updated to a version that contains the fix via the following errata:

kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1988

kernel-rt in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1975