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CVE-2022-49444

NVDCIRCLENISA

EUVD-2022-54785 · Published Feb 26, 2025

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: module: fix [e_shstrndx].sh_size=0 OOB access It is trivial to craft a module to trigger OOB access in this line: if (info->secstrings[strhdr->sh_size - 1] != '\0') { BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffc90000aa0fff PGD 100000067 P4D 100000067 PUD 100066067 PMD 10436f067 PTE 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI CPU: 7 PID: 1215 Comm: insmod Not tainted 5.18.0-rc5-00007-g9bf578647087-dirty #10 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-4.fc34 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:load_module+0x19b/0x2391 [rebased patch onto modules-next]

Technologies

Linux Linux Kernel

Weaknesses

CWE-125

CVSS scores

  • v3.17.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

MITRE ATT&CK

Inferred

Where this vulnerability fits in an attack

Privilege Escalation

References

Potentially impacted assets

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