CVE-2022-49568

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=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
2026-03-12T03:25:23.534528Z
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
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/49xxx/CVE-2022-49568.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
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

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49568.json"