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Unscored CVE-2022-48750 EUVD-2022-53629GHSA-hmp7-pqw6-66rw

hwmon: (nct6775) Fix crash in clear_caseopen

Published Jun 20, 2024 · Updated May 11, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

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Description

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

hwmon: (nct6775) Fix crash in clear_caseopen

Paweł Marciniak reports the following crash, observed when clearing
the chassis intrusion alarm.

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000028
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
CPU: 3 PID: 4815 Comm: bash Tainted: G S 5.16.2-200.fc35.x86_64 #1
Hardware name: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M./Z97 Extreme4, BIOS P2.60A 05/03/2018
RIP: 0010:clear_caseopen+0x5a/0x120 [nct6775]
Code: 68 70 e8 e9 32 b1 e3 85 c0 0f 85 d2 00 00 00 48 83 7c 24 ...
RSP: 0018:ffffabcb02803dd8 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000002 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffff8e8808192880 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff8e87c7509a68
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 000000000000000a
R10: 000000000000000a R11: f000000000000000 R12: 000000000000001f
R13: ffff8e87c7509828 R14: ffff8e87c7509a68 R15: ffff8e88494527a0
FS: 00007f4db9151740(0000) GS:ffff8e8ebfec0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000028 CR3: 0000000166b66001 CR4: 00000000001706e0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x11c/0x1b0
new_sync_write+0x10b/0x180
vfs_write+0x209/0x2a0
ksys_write+0x4f/0xc0
do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

The problem is that the device passed to clear_caseopen() is the hwmon
device, not the platform device, and the platform data is not set in the
hwmon device. Store the pointer to sio_data in struct nct6775_data and
get if from there if needed.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 5.16 5.16.5

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 5.16.7-1 —
Debian 13 linux 5.16.7-1 —
Debian 12 linux 5.16.7-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +20 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +26 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —

Advisories 1

References