Vulnerability Details CVE-2022-48707
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cxl/region: Fix null pointer dereference for resetting decoder
Not all decoders have a reset callback.
The CXL specification allows a host bridge with a single root port to
have no explicit HDM decoders. Currently the region driver assumes there
are none. As such the CXL core creates a special pass through decoder
instance without a commit/reset callback.
Prior to this patch, the ->reset() callback was called unconditionally when
calling cxl_region_decode_reset. Thus a configuration with 1 Host Bridge,
1 Root Port, and one directly attached CXL type 3 device or multiple CXL
type 3 devices attached to downstream ports of a switch can cause a null
pointer dereference.
Before the fix, a kernel crash was observed when we destroy the region, and
a pass through decoder is reset.
The issue can be reproduced as below,
1) create a region with a CXL setup which includes a HB with a
single root port under which a memdev is attached directly.
2) destroy the region with cxl destroy-region regionX -f.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 29.5%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.5
Products affected by CVE-2022-48707
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0.1
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0.10
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0.11
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0.12
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0.13
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0.14
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0.15
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0.16
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0.17
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0.18
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0.19
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0.2
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0.3
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0.4
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0.5
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0.6
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0.7
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0.8
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0.9
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.1
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.1.1
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.1.10
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.1.11
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.1.2
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.1.3
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.1.4
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.1.5
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.1.6
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.1.7
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.1.8
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.1.9
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.2