Linux Kernel up to 5.10.145/5.15.70/5.19.11/6.0 gma500 gma_crtc_page_flip stack-based overflow

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 5.10.145/5.15.70/5.19.11/6.0. It has been classified as critical. Affected is the function gma_crtc_page_flip of the component gma500. Performing a manipulation results in stack-based overflow. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2022-48634. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 5.10.145/5.15.70/5.19.11/6.0. It has been classified as critical. This affects the function gma_crtc_page_flip of the component gma500. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a stack-based overflow vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-121. A stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function). This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/gma500: Fix BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context errors gma_crtc_page_flip() was holding the event_lock spinlock while calling crtc_funcs->mode_set_base() which takes ww_mutex. The only reason to hold event_lock is to clear gma_crtc->page_flip_event on mode_set_base() errors. Instead unlock it after setting gma_crtc->page_flip_event and on errors re-take the lock and clear gma_crtc->page_flip_event it it is still set. This fixes the following WARN/stacktrace: [ 512.122953] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:870 [ 512.123004] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 1253, name: gnome-shell [ 512.123031] preempt_count: 1, expected: 0 [ 512.123048] RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0 [ 512.123066] INFO: lockdep is turned off. [ 512.123080] irq event stamp: 0 [ 512.123094] hardirqs last enabled at (0): [] 0x0 [ 512.123134] hardirqs last disabled at (0): [] copy_process+0x9fc/0x1de0 [ 512.123176] softirqs last enabled at (0): [] copy_process+0x9fc/0x1de0 [ 512.123207] softirqs last disabled at (0): [] 0x0 [ 512.123233] Preemption disabled at: [ 512.123241] [] 0x0 [ 512.123275] CPU: 3 PID: 1253 Comm: gnome-shell Tainted: G W 5.19.0+ #1 [ 512.123304] Hardware name: Packard Bell dot s/SJE01_CT, BIOS V1.10 07/23/2013 [ 512.123323] Call Trace: [ 512.123346] [ 512.123370] dump_stack_lvl+0x5b/0x77 [ 512.123412] __might_resched.cold+0xff/0x13a [ 512.123458] ww_mutex_lock+0x1e/0xa0 [ 512.123495] psb_gem_pin+0x2c/0x150 [gma500_gfx] [ 512.123601] gma_pipe_set_base+0x76/0x240 [gma500_gfx] [ 512.123708] gma_crtc_page_flip+0x95/0x130 [gma500_gfx] [ 512.123808] drm_mode_page_flip_ioctl+0x57d/0x5d0 [ 512.123897] ? drm_mode_cursor2_ioctl+0x10/0x10 [ 512.123936] drm_ioctl_kernel+0xa1/0x150 [ 512.123984] drm_ioctl+0x21f/0x420 [ 512.124025] ? drm_mode_cursor2_ioctl+0x10/0x10 [ 512.124070] ? rcu_read_lock_bh_held+0xb/0x60 [ 512.124104] ? lock_release+0x1ef/0x2d0 [ 512.124161] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x8d/0xd0 [ 512.124203] do_syscall_64+0x58/0x80 [ 512.124239] ? do_syscall_64+0x67/0x80 [ 512.124267] ? trace_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x55/0xe0 [ 512.124300] ? do_syscall_64+0x67/0x80 [ 512.124340] ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x10/0x80 [ 512.124377] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd [ 512.124411] RIP: 0033:0x7fcc4a70740f [ 512.124442] Code: 00 48 89 44 24 18 31 c0 48 8d 44 24 60 c7 04 24 10 00 00 00 48 89 44 24 08 48 8d 44 24 20 48 89 44 24 10 b8 10 00 00 00 0f 05 c2 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 18 48 8b 44 24 18 64 48 2b 04 25 28 00 00 [ 512.124470] RSP: 002b:00007ffda73f5390 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010 [ 512.124503] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000055cc9e474500 RCX: 00007fcc4a70740f [ 512.124524] RDX: 00007ffda73f5420 RSI: 00000000c01864b0 RDI: 0000000000000009 [ 512.124544] RBP: 00007ffda73f5420 R08: 000055cc9c0b0cb0 R09: 0000000000000034 [ 512.124564] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00000000c01864b0 [ 512.124584] R13: 0000000000000009 R14: 000055cc9df484d0 R15: 000055cc9af5d0c0 [ 512.124647]

It is possible to read the advisory at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2022-48634 since 02/25/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 06/19/2025).

Upgrading to version 5.10.146, 5.15.71, 5.19.12 or 6.0 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch c5812807e416/e5ae504c8623/a6ed7624bf4d/63e37a79f7bd is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at git.kernel.org. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2022-51329). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 5.10.145
• 5.15.0
• 5.15.1
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• 5.15.70
• 5.19.0
• 5.19.1
• 5.19.2
• 5.19.3
• 5.19.4
• 5.19.5
• 5.19.6
• 5.19.7
• 5.19.8
• 5.19.9
• 5.19.10
• 5.19.11
• 6.0

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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