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CVE-2022-48945

MEDIUM · 5.5 CVSS v3.1 Published 2024-09-23
Fix available
A fix is available. Upgrade to 4.9.337 / 4.14.303 or later.
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57/100
Remediation priority · Elevated
Zero-click Patch available

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: vivid: fix compose size exceed boundary syzkaller found a bug: BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffc9000a3b1000 #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page PGD 100000067 P4D 100000067 PUD 10015f067 PMD 1121ca067 PTE 0 Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP CPU: 0 PID: 23489 Comm: vivid-000-vid-c Not tainted 6.1.0-rc1+ #512 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:memcpy_erms+0x6/0x10 [...] Call Trace: <TASK> ? tpg_fill_plane_buffer+0x856/0x15b0 vivid_fillbuff+0x8ac/0x1110 vivid_thread_vid_cap_tick+0x361/0xc90 vivid_thread_vid_cap+0x21a/0x3a0 kthread+0x143/0x180 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 </TASK> This is because we forget to check boundary after adjust compose->height int V4L2_SEL_TGT_CROP case. Add v4l2_rect_map_inside() to fix this problem for this case.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

dbcve analysis

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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.

NVD · CPE data
Linux KernelOperating system
Affected:>= 3.18, < 4.9.337>= 4.10, < 4.14.303>= 4.15, < 4.19.270>= 4.20, < 5.4.229>= 5.5, < 5.10.163>= 5.11, < 5.15.86>= 5.16, < 6.0.16>= 6.1, < 6.1.2

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.

dbcve · scoped
Upgrade available Upgrade to 4.9.337 / 4.14.303 / 4.19.270 or later
Fixed in 4.9.3374.14.3034.19.270
Vendor patch git.kernel.org →
Recommended fix High confidence

Upgrade to kernel version 4.9.337/4.14.303/4.19.270/5.4.229 or later (choose the next stable release in your current branch)

  1. Identify the current kernel version using `uname -r`
  2. Determine which version branch your kernel falls into based on the affected version ranges (3.18-4.9.x, 4.10-4.14.x, 4.15-4.19.x, or 4.20-5.4.x)
  3. Upgrade the Linux kernel to a version that includes the fix: for 4.9.x branch upgrade to 4.9.337 or later, for 4.14.x branch upgrade to 4.14.303 or later, for 4.19.x branch upgrade to 4.19.270 or later, for 5.4.x branch upgrade to 5.4.229 or later
  4. After kernel upgrade, reboot the system to load the fixed kernel
  5. Verify the fix is applied by checking the kernel version and confirming the vivid driver functions correctly without page fault errors
Caveat Kernel upgrades may require driver recompilation and could introduce compatibility issues with custom modules; ensure backup and test in non-production environment first

Generated from the published advisory — verify against the referenced sources before acting.

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