Bug 2348268 (CVE-2022-49248)

Summary: CVE-2022-49248 kernel: ALSA: firewire-lib: fix uninitialized flag for AV/C deferred transaction
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-02-26 03:23:31 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ALSA: firewire-lib: fix uninitialized flag for AV/C deferred transaction

AV/C deferred transaction was supported at a commit 00a7bb81c20f ("ALSA:
firewire-lib: Add support for deferred transaction") while 'deferrable'
flag can be uninitialized for non-control/notify AV/C transactions.
UBSAN reports it:

kernel: ================================================================================
kernel: UBSAN: invalid-load in /build/linux-aa0B4d/linux-5.15.0/sound/firewire/fcp.c:363:9
kernel: load of value 158 is not a valid value for type '_Bool'
kernel: CPU: 3 PID: 182227 Comm: irq/35-firewire Tainted: P           OE     5.15.0-18-generic #18-Ubuntu
kernel: Hardware name: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. AX370-Gaming 5/AX370-Gaming 5, BIOS F42b 08/01/2019
kernel: Call Trace:
kernel:  <IRQ>
kernel:  show_stack+0x52/0x58
kernel:  dump_stack_lvl+0x4a/0x5f
kernel:  dump_stack+0x10/0x12
kernel:  ubsan_epilogue+0x9/0x45
kernel:  __ubsan_handle_load_invalid_value.cold+0x44/0x49
kernel:  fcp_response.part.0.cold+0x1a/0x2b [snd_firewire_lib]
kernel:  fcp_response+0x28/0x30 [snd_firewire_lib]
kernel:  fw_core_handle_request+0x230/0x3d0 [firewire_core]
kernel:  handle_ar_packet+0x1d9/0x200 [firewire_ohci]
kernel:  ? handle_ar_packet+0x1d9/0x200 [firewire_ohci]
kernel:  ? transmit_complete_callback+0x9f/0x120 [firewire_core]
kernel:  ar_context_tasklet+0xa8/0x2e0 [firewire_ohci]
kernel:  tasklet_action_common.constprop.0+0xea/0xf0
kernel:  tasklet_action+0x22/0x30
kernel:  __do_softirq+0xd9/0x2e3
kernel:  ? irq_finalize_oneshot.part.0+0xf0/0xf0
kernel:  do_softirq+0x75/0xa0
kernel:  </IRQ>
kernel:  <TASK>
kernel:  __local_bh_enable_ip+0x50/0x60
kernel:  irq_forced_thread_fn+0x7e/0x90
kernel:  irq_thread+0xba/0x190
kernel:  ? irq_thread_fn+0x60/0x60
kernel:  kthread+0x11e/0x140
kernel:  ? irq_thread_check_affinity+0xf0/0xf0
kernel:  ? set_kthread_struct+0x50/0x50
kernel:  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
kernel:  </TASK>
kernel: ================================================================================

This commit fixes the bug. The bug has no disadvantage for the non-
control/notify AV/C transactions since the flag has an effect for AV/C
response with INTERIM (0x0f) status which is not used for the transactions
in AV/C general specification.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-02-26 12:04:29 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022626-CVE-2022-49248-b4a9@gregkh/T

Comment 4 Avinash Hanwate 2025-02-26 16:24:20 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022626-CVE-2022-49248-b4a9@gregkh/T