Linux Kernel up to 5.10.155/5.15.79/6.0.9 drm drm_vblank_destroy_worker null pointer dereference

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in Linux Kernel up to 5.10.155/5.15.79/6.0.9. Impacted is the function drm_vblank_destroy_worker of the component drm. Such manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2022-49827. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 5.10.155/5.15.79/6.0.9 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is the function drm_vblank_destroy_worker of the component drm. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-476. A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm: Fix potential null-ptr-deref in drm_vblank_destroy_worker() drm_vblank_init() call drmm_add_action_or_reset() with drm_vblank_init_release() as action. If __drmm_add_action() failed, will directly call drm_vblank_init_release() with the vblank whose worker is NULL. As the resule, a null-ptr-deref will happen in kthread_destroy_worker(). Add the NULL check before calling drm_vblank_destroy_worker(). BUG: null-ptr-deref KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000068-0x000000000000006f] CPU: 5 PID: 961 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 6.0.0-11331-gd465bff130bf-dirty RIP: 0010:kthread_destroy_worker+0x25/0xb0 Call Trace: <TASK> drm_vblank_init_release+0x124/0x220 [drm] ? drm_crtc_vblank_restore+0x8b0/0x8b0 [drm] __drmm_add_action_or_reset+0x41/0x50 [drm] drm_vblank_init+0x282/0x310 [drm] vkms_init+0x35f/0x1000 [vkms] ? 0xffffffffc4508000 ? lock_is_held_type+0xd7/0x130 ? __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1c2/0x2b0 ? lock_is_held_type+0xd7/0x130 ? 0xffffffffc4508000 do_one_initcall+0xd0/0x4f0 ... do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

The advisory is shared for download at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2022-49827 since 05/01/2025. The exploitation is known to be difficult. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 246979 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-49827), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 5.10.156, 5.15.80 or 6.0.10 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 1d160dfb3fdf11ba9447e862c548447f91f4e74a/e884a6c2d49a6c12761e5bed851e9fe93bd923a1/3acd2016421b2e628acad65495d15493bf7a3bc3/4979524f5a2a8210e87fde2f642b0dc060860821 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 Tenable (246979). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 5.10.155
• 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
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• 5.15.76
• 5.15.77
• 5.15.78
• 5.15.79
• 6.0.0
• 6.0.1
• 6.0.2
• 6.0.3
• 6.0.4
• 6.0.5
• 6.0.6
• 6.0.7
• 6.0.8
• 6.0.9

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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