Bug 2335893 (CVE-2024-56769) - CVE-2024-56769 kernel: media: dvb-frontends: dib3000mb: fix uninit-value in dib3000_write_reg
Summary: CVE-2024-56769 kernel: media: dvb-frontends: dib3000mb: fix uninit-value in d...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-56769
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-01-06 17:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-01-06 18:33 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-01-06 17:01:28 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

media: dvb-frontends: dib3000mb: fix uninit-value in dib3000_write_reg

Syzbot reports [1] an uninitialized value issue found by KMSAN in
dib3000_read_reg().

Local u8 rb[2] is used in i2c_transfer() as a read buffer; in case
that call fails, the buffer may end up with some undefined values.

Since no elaborate error handling is expected in dib3000_write_reg(),
simply zero out rb buffer to mitigate the problem.

[1] Syzkaller report
dvb-usb: bulk message failed: -22 (6/0)
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BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in dib3000mb_attach+0x2d8/0x3c0 drivers/media/dvb-frontends/dib3000mb.c:758
 dib3000mb_attach+0x2d8/0x3c0 drivers/media/dvb-frontends/dib3000mb.c:758
 dibusb_dib3000mb_frontend_attach+0x155/0x2f0 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dibusb-mb.c:31
 dvb_usb_adapter_frontend_init+0xed/0x9a0 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-dvb.c:290
 dvb_usb_adapter_init drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-init.c:90 [inline]
 dvb_usb_init drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-init.c:186 [inline]
 dvb_usb_device_init+0x25a8/0x3760 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-init.c:310
 dibusb_probe+0x46/0x250 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dibusb-mb.c:110
...
Local variable rb created at:
 dib3000_read_reg+0x86/0x4e0 drivers/media/dvb-frontends/dib3000mb.c:54
 dib3000mb_attach+0x123/0x3c0 drivers/media/dvb-frontends/dib3000mb.c:758
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