Bug 2347667 (CVE-2022-49235) - CVE-2022-49235 kernel: ath9k_htc: fix uninit value bugs
Summary: CVE-2022-49235 kernel: ath9k_htc: fix uninit value bugs
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-49235
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-02-26 03:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-03-26 14:00 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-02-26 03:02:30 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ath9k_htc: fix uninit value bugs

Syzbot reported 2 KMSAN bugs in ath9k. All of them are caused by missing
field initialization.

In htc_connect_service() svc_meta_len and pad are not initialized. Based
on code it looks like in current skb there is no service data, so simply
initialize svc_meta_len to 0.

htc_issue_send() does not initialize htc_frame_hdr::control array. Based
on firmware code, it will initialize it by itself, so simply zero whole
array to make KMSAN happy

Fail logs:

BUG: KMSAN: kernel-usb-infoleak in usb_submit_urb+0x6c1/0x2aa0 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:430
 usb_submit_urb+0x6c1/0x2aa0 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:430
 hif_usb_send_regout drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c:127 [inline]
 hif_usb_send+0x5f0/0x16f0 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c:479
 htc_issue_send drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c:34 [inline]
 htc_connect_service+0x143e/0x1960 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c:275
...

Uninit was created at:
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slab.h:524 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3251 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0xe0c/0x1510 mm/slub.c:4974
 kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:354 [inline]
 __alloc_skb+0x545/0xf90 net/core/skbuff.c:426
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1126 [inline]
 htc_connect_service+0x1029/0x1960 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c:258
...

Bytes 4-7 of 18 are uninitialized
Memory access of size 18 starts at ffff888027377e00

BUG: KMSAN: kernel-usb-infoleak in usb_submit_urb+0x6c1/0x2aa0 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:430
 usb_submit_urb+0x6c1/0x2aa0 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:430
 hif_usb_send_regout drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c:127 [inline]
 hif_usb_send+0x5f0/0x16f0 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c:479
 htc_issue_send drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c:34 [inline]
 htc_connect_service+0x143e/0x1960 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c:275
...

Uninit was created at:
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slab.h:524 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3251 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0xe0c/0x1510 mm/slub.c:4974
 kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:354 [inline]
 __alloc_skb+0x545/0xf90 net/core/skbuff.c:426
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1126 [inline]
 htc_connect_service+0x1029/0x1960 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c:258
...

Bytes 16-17 of 18 are uninitialized
Memory access of size 18 starts at ffff888027377e00

Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2025-02-26 10:50:51 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022624-CVE-2022-49235-52fb@gregkh/T


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