CVE-2024-40945

EPSS 0.04 % (11th)
0.04% Progress
Advisories 20
NVD Status Awaiting Analysis

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

iommu: Return right value in iommu_sva_bind_device()

iommu_sva_bind_device() should return either a sva bond handle or an
ERR_PTR value in error cases. Existing drivers (idxd and uacce) only
check the return value with IS_ERR(). This could potentially lead to
a kernel NULL pointer dereference issue if the function returns NULL
instead of an error pointer.

In reality, this doesn't cause any problems because iommu_sva_bind_device()
only returns NULL when the kernel is not configured with CONFIG_IOMMU_SVA.
In this case, iommu_dev_enable_feature(dev, IOMMU_DEV_FEAT_SVA) will
return an error, and the device drivers won't call iommu_sva_bind_device()
at all.

CVE Status
PUBLISHED
NVD Status
Awaiting Analysis
CNA
kernel.org
Published Date
2024-07-12 13:15:16
(2 months ago)
Updated Date
2024-07-12 16:34:58
(2 months ago)
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