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HistoryJul 12, 2024 - 12:00 a.m.

CVE-2024-40945

2024-07-1200:00:00
ubuntu.com
ubuntu.com
5
linux kernel
iommu
vulnerability
null pointer
device drivers
configuration .

AI Score

6.9

Confidence

Low

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iommu: Return right value in iommu_sva_bind_device()
iommu_sva_bind_device() should return either a sva bond handle or an
ERR_PTR value in error cases. Existing drivers (idxd and uacce) only
check the return value with IS_ERR(). This could potentially lead to
a kernel NULL pointer dereference issue if the function returns NULL
instead of an error pointer.
In reality, this doesn’t cause any problems because iommu_sva_bind_device()
only returns NULL when the kernel is not configured with CONFIG_IOMMU_SVA.
In this case, iommu_dev_enable_feature(dev, IOMMU_DEV_FEAT_SVA) will
return an error, and the device drivers won’t call iommu_sva_bind_device()
at all.