CVE-2022-50058

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.19-5.19.3 - NULL Pointer Dereference in vdpa_sim_blk Device Initialization

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vdpa_sim_blk: set number of address spaces and virtqueue groups Commit bda324fd037a ("vdpasim: control virtqueue support") added two new fields (nas, ngroups) to vdpasim_dev_attr, but we forgot to initialize them for vdpa_sim_blk. When creating a new vdpa_sim_blk device this causes the kernel to panic in this way:    $ vdpa dev add mgmtdev vdpasim_blk name blk0    BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000030    ...    RIP: 0010:vhost_iotlb_add_range_ctx+0x41/0x220 [vhost_iotlb]    ...    Call Trace:     <TASK>     vhost_iotlb_add_range+0x11/0x800 [vhost_iotlb]     vdpasim_map_range+0x91/0xd0 [vdpa_sim]     vdpasim_alloc_coherent+0x56/0x90 [vdpa_sim]     ... This happens because vdpasim->iommu[0] is not initialized when dev_attr.nas is 0. Let's fix this issue by initializing both (nas, ngroups) to 1 for vdpa_sim_blk.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0014
EPSS Percentile 3.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (8)
linux/Kernel 5.19.0 - 5.19.4linux
Linux/Linux < 5.19
Linux/Linux 5.19
Linux/Linux 5.19.4 - 5.19.*
Linux/Linux 6.0
Linux/Linux bda324fd037a6b0d44da5699574ce741ca161bc4 - 19cd4a5471b8eaa4bd161b0fdb4567f2fc88d809
Linux/Linux bda324fd037a6b0d44da5699574ce741ca161bc4 - a291c7d289fac2cb13fb2614a9a251afbbd86ce9
linux/linux_kernel 5.19 - 5.19.4
Published Jun 18, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026