Bug 2373397 (CVE-2022-49940)

Summary: CVE-2022-49940 kernel: tty: n_gsm: add sanity check for gsm->receive in gsm_receive_buf()
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-06-18 11:01:11 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tty: n_gsm: add sanity check for gsm->receive in gsm_receive_buf()

A null pointer dereference can happen when attempting to access the
"gsm->receive()" function in gsmld_receive_buf(). Currently, the code
assumes that gsm->recieve is only called after MUX activation.
Since the gsmld_receive_buf() function can be accessed without the need to
initialize the MUX, the gsm->receive() function will not be set and a
NULL pointer dereference will occur.

Fix this by avoiding the call to "gsm->receive()" in case the function is
not initialized by adding a sanity check.

Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 gsmld_receive_buf+0x1c2/0x2f0 drivers/tty/n_gsm.c:2861
 tiocsti drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2293 [inline]
 tty_ioctl+0xa75/0x15d0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2692
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:870 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:856 [inline]
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x193/0x200 fs/ioctl.c:856
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-06-20 13:40:12 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025061848-CVE-2022-49940-181b@gregkh/T