Re: CVE-2022-49689: xen-blkfront: Handle NULL gendisk

[Juergen Gross]

On 26.02.25 03:24, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> Description
> ===========
>
> In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
>
> xen-blkfront: Handle NULL gendisk
>
> When a VBD is not fully created and then closed, the kernel can have a
> NULL pointer dereference:
>
> The reproducer is trivial:
>
> [user@dom0 ~]$ sudo xl block-attach work backend=sys-usb vdev=xvdi target=/dev/sdz
> [user@dom0 ~]$ xl block-list work
> Vdev  BE  handle state evt-ch ring-ref BE-path
> 51712 0   241    4     -1     -1       /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/241/51712
> 51728 0   241    4     -1     -1       /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/241/51728
> 51744 0   241    4     -1     -1       /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/241/51744
> 51760 0   241    4     -1     -1       /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/241/51760
> 51840 3   241    3     -1     -1       /local/domain/3/backend/vbd/241/51840
>                   ^ note state, the /dev/sdz doesn't exist in the backend
>
> [user@dom0 ~]$ sudo xl block-detach work xvdi

Please revoke this CVE. As the reproducer recipe is clearly showing, the
bug can be triggered by host admin actions only. There is no way an unprivileged
user on the host or in the guest could trigger the issue.


Juergen

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