Bug 2363440 (CVE-2022-49790)

Summary: CVE-2022-49790 kernel: Input: iforce - invert valid length check when fetching device IDs
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-01 15:04:44 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Input: iforce - invert valid length check when fetching device IDs

syzbot is reporting uninitialized value at iforce_init_device() [1], for
commit 6ac0aec6b0a6 ("Input: iforce - allow callers supply data buffer
when fetching device IDs") is checking that valid length is shorter than
bytes to read. Since iforce_get_id_packet() stores valid length when
returning 0, the caller needs to check that valid length is longer than or
equals to bytes to read.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-05-02 04:26:33 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050122-CVE-2022-49790-fb22@gregkh/T