CVE-2022-49568

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49568
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49568.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-49568
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-02-26T02:23:12.722Z
Modified
2025-11-28T02:34:07.508274Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
KVM: Don't null dereference ops->destroy
Details

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 kvmioctlcreate_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 kvmdestroydevices() as devices with defined release() should have been removed from the KVM devices list by then.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/49xxx/CVE-2022-49568.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
852b6d57dc7fa378019786fa84727036e56839ea
Fixed
170465715a60cbb7876e6b961b21bd3225469da8
Fixed
3616776bc51cd3262bb1be60cc01c72e0a1959cf
Fixed
e91665fbbf3ccb268b268a7d71a6513538d813ac
Fixed
d4a5a79b780891c5cbdfdc6124d46fdf8d13dba1
Fixed
e8bc2427018826e02add7b0ed0fc625a60390ae5

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
3.10.0
Fixed
5.4.210
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.5.0
Fixed
5.10.134
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
5.15.58
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
5.18.15