CVE-2024-44931 gpio: prevent potential speculation leaks in gpio_device_get_desc()

2024-08-2610:11:21

Linux

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linux kernel

speculation leaks

gpio descriptor

EPSS

Percentile

16.3%

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

gpio: prevent potential speculation leaks in gpio_device_get_desc()

Userspace may trigger a speculative read of an address outside the gpio
descriptor array.
Users can do that by calling gpio_ioctl() with an offset out of range.
Offset is copied from user and then used as an array index to get
the gpio descriptor without sanitization in gpio_device_get_desc().

This change ensures that the offset is sanitized by using
array_index_nospec() to mitigate any possibility of speculative
information leaks.

This bug was discovered and resolved using Coverity Static Analysis
Security Testing (SAST) by Synopsys, Inc.

CNA Affected

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      "drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c"
    ],
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