CVE-2022-50272

NameCVE-2022-50272
DescriptionIn the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: dvb-usb: az6027: fix null-ptr-deref in az6027_i2c_xfer() Wei Chen reports a kernel bug as blew: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000010-0x0000000000000017] ... Call Trace: <TASK> __i2c_transfer+0x77e/0x1930 drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c:2109 i2c_transfer+0x1d5/0x3d0 drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c:2170 i2cdev_ioctl_rdwr+0x393/0x660 drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c:297 i2cdev_ioctl+0x75d/0x9f0 drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c:458 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline] __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:870 [inline] __se_sys_ioctl+0xfb/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:856 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd RIP: 0033:0x7fd834a8bded In az6027_i2c_xfer(), if msg[i].addr is 0x99, a null-ptr-deref will caused when accessing msg[i].buf. For msg[i].len is 0 and msg[i].buf is null. Fix this by checking msg[i].len in az6027_i2c_xfer().
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Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
linux (PTS)bullseye5.10.223-1fixed
bullseye (security)5.10.237-1fixed
bookworm6.1.148-1fixed
bookworm (security)6.1.147-1fixed
trixie6.12.43-1fixed
trixie (security)6.12.41-1fixed
forky6.16.3-1fixed
sid6.16.7-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
linuxsourcebullseye5.10.178-1
linuxsource(unstable)6.1.4-1

Notes

https://git.kernel.org/linus/0ed554fd769a19ea8464bb83e9ac201002ef74ad (6.2-rc1)

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