CVE-2022-48813

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.9-5.10.101, 5.11-5.15.24, 5.16-5.16.10 - Denial of Service via Felix VSC9959 MDIO Bus Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: dsa: felix: don't use devres for mdiobus As explained in commits: 74b6d7d13307 ("net: dsa: realtek: register the MDIO bus under devres") 5135e96a3dd2 ("net: dsa: don't allocate the slave_mii_bus using devres") mdiobus_free() will panic when called from devm_mdiobus_free() <- devres_release_all() <- __device_release_driver(), and that mdiobus was not previously unregistered. The Felix VSC9959 switch is a PCI device, so the initial set of constraints that I thought would cause this (I2C or SPI buses which call ->remove on ->shutdown) do not apply. But there is one more which applies here. If the DSA master itself is on a bus that calls ->remove from ->shutdown (like dpaa2-eth, which is on the fsl-mc bus), there is a device link between the switch and the DSA master, and device_links_unbind_consumers() will unbind the felix switch driver on shutdown. So the same treatment must be applied to all DSA switch drivers, which is: either use devres for both the mdiobus allocation and registration, or don't use devres at all. The felix driver has the code structure in place for orderly mdiobus removal, so just replace devm_mdiobus_alloc_size() with the non-devres variant, and add manual free where necessary, to ensure that we don't let devres free a still-registered bus.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0027
EPSS Percentile 19.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

Status published
Products (15)
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.24linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 5.16.10linux
linux/Kernel 5.9.0 - 5.10.101linux
Linux/Linux < 5.9
Linux/Linux 5.10.101 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.15.24 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 5.16.10 - 5.16.*
Linux/Linux 5.17
Linux/Linux 5.9
Linux/Linux ac3a68d56651c3dad2c12c7afce065fe15267f44 - 209bdb7ec6a28c7cdf580a0a98afbc9fc3b98932
... and 5 more
Published Jul 16, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026