CVE-2022-49228
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-476
NULL Pointer Dereference
Publication date:
26/02/2025
Last modified:
22/09/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
bpf: Fix a btf decl_tag bug when tagging a function<br />
<br />
syzbot reported a btf decl_tag bug with stack trace below:<br />
<br />
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN<br />
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]<br />
CPU: 0 PID: 3592 Comm: syz-executor914 Not tainted 5.16.0-syzkaller-11424-gb7892f7d5cb2 #0<br />
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011<br />
RIP: 0010:btf_type_vlen include/linux/btf.h:231 [inline]<br />
RIP: 0010:btf_decl_tag_resolve+0x83e/0xaa0 kernel/bpf/btf.c:3910<br />
...<br />
Call Trace:<br />
<br />
btf_resolve+0x251/0x1020 kernel/bpf/btf.c:4198<br />
btf_check_all_types kernel/bpf/btf.c:4239 [inline]<br />
btf_parse_type_sec kernel/bpf/btf.c:4280 [inline]<br />
btf_parse kernel/bpf/btf.c:4513 [inline]<br />
btf_new_fd+0x19fe/0x2370 kernel/bpf/btf.c:6047<br />
bpf_btf_load kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4039 [inline]<br />
__sys_bpf+0x1cbb/0x5970 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4679<br />
__do_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4738 [inline]<br />
__se_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4736 [inline]<br />
__x64_sys_bpf+0x75/0xb0 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4736<br />
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]<br />
do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80<br />
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae<br />
<br />
The kasan error is triggered with an illegal BTF like below:<br />
type 0: void<br />
type 1: int<br />
type 2: decl_tag to func type 3<br />
type 3: func to func_proto type 8<br />
The total number of types is 4 and the type 3 is illegal<br />
since its func_proto type is out of range.<br />
<br />
Currently, the target type of decl_tag can be struct/union, var or func.<br />
Both struct/union and var implemented their own &#39;resolve&#39; callback functions<br />
and hence handled properly in kernel.<br />
But func type doesn&#39;t have &#39;resolve&#39; callback function. When<br />
btf_decl_tag_resolve() tries to check func type, it tries to get<br />
vlen of its func_proto type, which triggered the above kasan error.<br />
<br />
To fix the issue, btf_decl_tag_resolve() needs to do btf_func_check()<br />
before trying to accessing func_proto type.<br />
In the current implementation, func type is checked with<br />
btf_func_check() in the main checking function btf_check_all_types().<br />
To fix the above kasan issue, let us implement &#39;resolve&#39; callback<br />
func type properly. The &#39;resolve&#39; callback will be also called<br />
in btf_check_all_types() for func types.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
5.50
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
Vulnerable products and versions
| CPE | From | Up to |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 5.16 (including) | 5.16.19 (excluding) |
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 5.17 (including) | 5.17.2 (excluding) |
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