CVE-2022-49771
Published: May 1, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm ioctl: fix misbehavior if list_versions races with module loading __list_versions will first estimate the required space using the "dm_target_iterate(list_version_get_needed, &needed)" call and then will fill the space using the "dm_target_iterate(list_version_get_info, &iter_info)" call. Each of these calls locks the targets using the "down_read(&_lock)" and "up_read(&_lock)" calls, however between the first and second "dm_target_iterate" there is no lock held and the target modules can be loaded at this point, so the second "dm_target_iterate" call may need more space than what was the first "dm_target_iterate" returned. The code tries to handle this overflow (see the beginning of list_version_get_info), however this handling is incorrect. The code sets "param->data_size = param->data_start + needed" and "iter_info.end = (char *)vers+len" - "needed" is the size returned by the first dm_target_iterate call; "len" is the size of the buffer allocated by userspace. "len" may be greater than "needed"; in this case, the code will write up to "len" bytes into the buffer, however param->data_size is set to "needed", so it may write data past the param->data_size value. The ioctl interface copies only up to param->data_size into userspace, thus part of the result will be truncated. Fix this bug by setting "iter_info.end = (char *)vers + needed;" - this guarantees that the second "dm_target_iterate" call will write only up to the "needed" buffer and it will exit with "DM_BUFFER_FULL_FLAG" if it overflows the "needed" space - in this case, userspace will allocate a larger buffer and retry. Note that there is also a bug in list_version_get_needed - we need to add "strlen(tt->name) + 1" to the needed size, not "strlen(tt->name)".
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < 0c8d4112df329bf3dfbf27693f918c3b08676538affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < 6a818db0d5aecf80d4ba9e10ac153f60adc629caaffected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < 3a1c35d72dc0b34d1e746ed705790c0f630aa427affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < b545c0e1e4094d4de2bdfe9a3823f9154b0c0005affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < f59f5a269ca5e43c567aca7f1f52500a0186e9b7+3 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 2.6.12unaffected 0 - < 2.6.12unaffected 4.9.334 - <= 4.9.*unaffected 4.14.300 - <= 4.14.*unaffected 4.19.267 - <= 4.19.*+5 more versions |
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