Linux Kernel up to 5.15.50/5.18.7 allocation of resources

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Linux Kernel up to 5.15.50/5.18.7. The impacted element is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to allocation of resources. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2022-49701. There is no exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 5.15.50/5.18.7 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a allocation of resources vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-770. The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor. The impact remains unknown. CVE summarizes:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: ibmvfc: Allocate/free queue resource only during probe/remove Currently, the sub-queues and event pool resources are allocated/freed for every CRQ connection event such as reset and LPM. This exposes the driver to a couple issues. First the inefficiency of freeing and reallocating memory that can simply be resued after being sanitized. Further, a system under memory pressue runs the risk of allocation failures that could result in a crippled driver. Finally, there is a race window where command submission/compeletion can try to pull/return elements from/to an event pool that is being deleted or already has been deleted due to the lack of host state around freeing/allocating resources. The following is an example of list corruption following a live partition migration (LPM): Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1] LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries Modules linked in: vfat fat isofs cdrom ext4 mbcache jbd2 nft_counter nft_compat nf_tables nfnetlink rpadlpar_io rpaphp xsk_diag nfsv3 nfs_acl nfs lockd grace fscache netfs rfkill bonding tls sunrpc pseries_rng drm drm_panel_orientation_quirks xfs libcrc32c dm_service_time sd_mod t10_pi sg ibmvfc scsi_transport_fc ibmveth vmx_crypto dm_multipath dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod ipmi_devintf ipmi_msghandler fuse CPU: 0 PID: 2108 Comm: ibmvfc_0 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.14.0-70.9.1.el9_0.ppc64le #1 NIP: c0000000007c4bb0 LR: c0000000007c4bac CTR: 00000000005b9a10 REGS: c00000025c10b760 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (5.14.0-70.9.1.el9_0.ppc64le) MSR: 800000000282b033 CR: 2800028f XER: 0000000f CFAR: c0000000001f55bc IRQMASK: 0 GPR00: c0000000007c4bac c00000025c10ba00 c000000002a47c00 000000000000004e GPR04: c0000031e3006f88 c0000031e308bd00 c00000025c10b768 0000000000000027 GPR08: 0000000000000000 c0000031e3009dc0 00000031e0eb0000 0000000000000000 GPR12: c0000031e2ffffa8 c000000002dd0000 c000000000187108 c00000020fcee2c0 GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 GPR20: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 c008000002f81300 GPR24: 5deadbeef0000100 5deadbeef0000122 c000000263ba6910 c00000024cc88000 GPR28: 000000000000003c c0000002430a0000 c0000002430ac300 000000000000c300 NIP [c0000000007c4bb0] __list_del_entry_valid+0x90/0x100 LR [c0000000007c4bac] __list_del_entry_valid+0x8c/0x100 Call Trace: [c00000025c10ba00] [c0000000007c4bac] __list_del_entry_valid+0x8c/0x100 (unreliable) [c00000025c10ba60] [c008000002f42284] ibmvfc_free_queue+0xec/0x210 [ibmvfc] [c00000025c10bb10] [c008000002f4246c] ibmvfc_deregister_scsi_channel+0xc4/0x160 [ibmvfc] [c00000025c10bba0] [c008000002f42580] ibmvfc_release_sub_crqs+0x78/0x130 [ibmvfc] [c00000025c10bc20] [c008000002f4f6cc] ibmvfc_do_work+0x5c4/0xc70 [ibmvfc] [c00000025c10bce0] [c008000002f4fdec] ibmvfc_work+0x74/0x1e8 [ibmvfc] [c00000025c10bda0] [c0000000001872b8] kthread+0x1b8/0x1c0 [c00000025c10be10] [c00000000000cd64] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64 Instruction dump: 40820034 38600001 38210060 4e800020 7c0802a6 7c641b78 3c62fe7a 7d254b78 3863b590 f8010070 4ba309cd 60000000 7c0802a6 3c62fe7a 3863b640 ---[ end trace 11a2b65a92f8b66c ]--- ibmvfc 30000003: Send warning. Receive queue closed, will retry. Add registration/deregistration helpers that are called instead during connection resets to sanitize and reconfigure the queues.

The advisory is available at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2022-49701 since 02/26/2025. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

Upgrading to version 5.15.51 or 5.18.8 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 161ec2a0807ddd58bc0f24f3e1e7e3d4fef5297f/9f23c499ca601b2a1e1d2e761d03964b739bca0e/72ea7fe0db73d65c7d977208842d8ade9b823de9 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.

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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 5.15.0
• 5.15.1
• 5.15.2
• 5.15.3
• 5.15.4
• 5.15.5
• 5.15.6
• 5.15.7
• 5.15.8
• 5.15.9
• 5.15.10
• 5.15.11
• 5.15.12
• 5.15.13
• 5.15.14
• 5.15.15
• 5.15.16
• 5.15.17
• 5.15.18
• 5.15.19
• 5.15.20
• 5.15.21
• 5.15.22
• 5.15.23
• 5.15.24
• 5.15.25
• 5.15.26
• 5.15.27
• 5.15.28
• 5.15.29
• 5.15.30
• 5.15.31
• 5.15.32
• 5.15.33
• 5.15.34
• 5.15.35
• 5.15.36
• 5.15.37
• 5.15.38
• 5.15.39
• 5.15.40
• 5.15.41
• 5.15.42
• 5.15.43
• 5.15.44
• 5.15.45
• 5.15.46
• 5.15.47
• 5.15.48
• 5.15.49
• 5.15.50
• 5.18.0
• 5.18.1
• 5.18.2
• 5.18.3
• 5.18.4
• 5.18.5
• 5.18.6
• 5.18.7

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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