CVE-2022-50307

HIGH

Linux Kernel 5.15-5.15.78 5.16-6.0.7 - Out-of-bounds Read in Channel-Subsystem Driver

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390/cio: fix out-of-bounds access on cio_ignore free The channel-subsystem-driver scans for newly available devices whenever device-IDs are removed from the cio_ignore list using a command such as: echo free >/proc/cio_ignore Since an I/O device scan might interfer with running I/Os, commit 172da89ed0ea ("s390/cio: avoid excessive path-verification requests") introduced an optimization to exclude online devices from the scan. The newly added check for online devices incorrectly assumes that an I/O-subchannel's drvdata points to a struct io_subchannel_private. For devices that are bound to a non-default I/O subchannel driver, such as the vfio_ccw driver, this results in an out-of-bounds read access during each scan. Fix this by changing the scan logic to rely on a driver-independent online indication. For this we can use struct subchannel->config.ena, which is the driver's requested subchannel-enabled state. Since I/Os can only be started on enabled subchannels, this matches the intent of the original optimization of not scanning devices where I/O might be running.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.1
EPSS 0.0015
EPSS Percentile 4.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-125
Status published
Products (13)
linux/Kernel 5.15.0 - 5.15.78linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.0.7linux
Linux/Linux < 5.15
Linux/Linux 172da89ed0eaf9d9348f5decb86ad04c624b39d1 - 0e501fd0f38e42304bfa0d46a812d93f80294a87
Linux/Linux 172da89ed0eaf9d9348f5decb86ad04c624b39d1 - 106ab66cf5467726ca5ead51623043d37c06820a
Linux/Linux 172da89ed0eaf9d9348f5decb86ad04c624b39d1 - 1b6074112742f65ece71b0f299ca5a6a887d2db6
Linux/Linux 5.15
Linux/Linux 5.15.78 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 6.0.7 - 6.0.*
Linux/Linux 6.1
... and 3 more
Published Sep 15, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026