CVE-2022-50307 (GCVE-0-2022-50307)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-15 14:46 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:16
VLAI
Title
s390/cio: fix out-of-bounds access on cio_ignore free
Summary
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.
Severity
7.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7018 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 172da89ed0eaf9d9348f5decb86ad04c624b39d1 , < 0e501fd0f38e42304bfa0d46a812d93f80294a87 (git)
Affected: 172da89ed0eaf9d9348f5decb86ad04c624b39d1 , < 106ab66cf5467726ca5ead51623043d37c06820a (git)
Affected: 172da89ed0eaf9d9348f5decb86ad04c624b39d1 , < 1b6074112742f65ece71b0f299ca5a6a887d2db6 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.78 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0.7 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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