CVE-2022-2308

Public on 2022-09-01
Modified on 2022-10-17
Description
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel in vDPA with VDUSE backend. There were no checks in VDUSE kernel driver to ensure the size of the device config space was in line with the features advertised by the VDUSE userspace application. In case of a mismatch, Virtio drivers config read helpers did not initialize the memory indirectly passed to vduse_vdpa_get_config() returning uninitialized memory from the stack. Such memory was not directly propagated to userspace, although under some circumstances it could be printed in the kernel logs.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.5
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.15 Extra kernel 2022-10-17 ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2022-009 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N