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.
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Information
Published : 2025-09-15 15:15
Updated : 2025-12-04 15:30
NVD link : CVE-2022-50307
Mitre link : CVE-2022-50307
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2022-50307
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Products Affected
linux
- linux_kernel
CWE
CWE-125
Out-of-bounds Read