CVE-2022-49568

KVM: Don't null dereference ops->destroy

State
Published
Severity
5.5 Medium
Published
Feb 26, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Feb 26, 2025

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: Don't null dereference ops->destroy

A KVM device cleanup happens in either of two callbacks: 1) destroy() which is called when the VM is being destroyed; 2) release() which is called when a device fd is closed.

Most KVM devices use 1) but Book3s's interrupt controller KVM devices (XICS, XIVE, XIVE-native) use 2) as they need to close and reopen during the machine execution. The error handling in kvm_ioctl_create_device() assumes destroy() is always defined which leads to NULL dereference as discovered by Syzkaller.

This adds a checks for destroy!=NULL and adds a missing release().

This is not changing kvm_destroy_devices() as devices with defined release() should have been removed from the KVM devices list by then.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 852b6d57dc7fa378019786fa84727036e56839ea to before 170465715a60cbb7876e6b961b21bd3225469da8Affected
  • 852b6d57dc7fa378019786fa84727036e56839ea to before 3616776bc51cd3262bb1be60cc01c72e0a1959cfAffected
  • 852b6d57dc7fa378019786fa84727036e56839ea to before e91665fbbf3ccb268b268a7d71a6513538d813acAffected
  • 852b6d57dc7fa378019786fa84727036e56839ea to before d4a5a79b780891c5cbdfdc6124d46fdf8d13dba1Affected
  • 852b6d57dc7fa378019786fa84727036e56839ea to before e8bc2427018826e02add7b0ed0fc625a60390ae5Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 3.10Affected
  • before 3.10Not affected
  • 5.4.210 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.134 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.58 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 5.18.15 through 5.18.*Not affected
  • 5.19 and laterNot affected

References

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