Bug 2235493 (CVE-2022-47022)

Summary: CVE-2022-47022 hwloc: null pointer dereference bug in open-mpi hwloc
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Chess Hazlett <chazlett>
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A flaw was found in open-mpi/hwloc. A NULL pointer dereference in the hwloc_linux_set_tid_cpubind function in topology-linux.c may cause the application to crash and lead to a denial of service in certain conditions.
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Bug Depends On: 2235494, 2235495, 2235496, 2235497, 2236259    
Bug Blocks: 2235492    

Description Chess Hazlett 2023-08-28 21:30:54 UTC
An issue was discovered in open-mpi hwloc 2.1.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impacts via glibc-cpuset in topology-linux.c.
https://github.com/open-mpi/hwloc/issues/544

Comment 2 Pedro Sampaio 2023-08-30 20:13:01 UTC
Created hwloc tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2236259]