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Unscored CVE-2022-48853 EUVD-2022-53732GHSA-p622-mwq3-26f2

Reinstate some of "swiotlb: rework "fix info leak with DMA_FROM_DEVICE""

Published Jul 16, 2024 · Updated May 11, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

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Description

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

swiotlb: fix info leak with DMA_FROM_DEVICE

The problem I'm addressing was discovered by the LTP test covering
cve-2018-1000204.

A short description of what happens follows:
1) The test case issues a command code 00 (TEST UNIT READY) via the SG_IO
interface with: dxfer_len == 524288, dxdfer_dir == SG_DXFER_FROM_DEV
and a corresponding dxferp. The peculiar thing about this is that TUR
is not reading from the device.
2) In sg_start_req() the invocation of blk_rq_map_user() effectively
bounces the user-space buffer. As if the device was to transfer into
it. Since commit a45b599ad808 ("scsi: sg: allocate with __GFP_ZERO in
sg_build_indirect()") we make sure this first bounce buffer is
allocated with GFP_ZERO.
3) For the rest of the story we keep ignoring that we have a TUR, so the
device won't touch the buffer we prepare as if the we had a
DMA_FROM_DEVICE type of situation. My setup uses a virtio-scsi device
and the buffer allocated by SG is mapped by the function
virtqueue_add_split() which uses DMA_FROM_DEVICE for the "in" sgs (here
scatter-gather and not scsi generics). This mapping involves bouncing
via the swiotlb (we need swiotlb to do virtio in protected guest like
s390 Secure Execution, or AMD SEV).
4) When the SCSI TUR is done, we first copy back the content of the second
(that is swiotlb) bounce buffer (which most likely contains some
previous IO data), to the first bounce buffer, which contains all
zeros. Then we copy back the content of the first bounce buffer to
the user-space buffer.
5) The test case detects that the buffer, which it zero-initialized,
ain't all zeros and fails.

One can argue that this is an swiotlb problem, because without swiotlb
we leak all zeros, and the swiotlb should be transparent in a sense that
it does not affect the outcome (if all other participants are well
behaved).

Copying the content of the original buffer into the swiotlb buffer is
the only way I can think of to make swiotlb transparent in such
scenarios. So let's do just that if in doubt, but allow the driver
to tell us that the whole mapped buffer is going to be overwritten,
in which case we can preserve the old behavior and avoid the performance
impact of the extra bounce.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 2.6.12 4.9.320

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 5.16.18-1 —
Debian 13 linux 5.16.18-1 —
Debian 12 linux 5.16.18-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-raspi-realtime No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux +1 5.15.0-37.39 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws 5.15.0-1011.14 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure 5.15.0-1010.12 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp 5.15.0-1008.12 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gke 5.15.0-1008.10 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-ibm 5.15.0-1007.8 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg 5.15.0-1008.11 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-kvm 5.15.0-1010.11 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oracle 5.15.0-1009.12 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-raspi 5.15.0-1011.13 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +25 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux 5.4.0-126.142 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-aws 5.4.0-1085.92 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-azure 5.4.0-1091.96 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-azure-5.15 5.15.0-1008.9~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-bluefield 5.4.0-1046.51 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gcp 5.4.0-1089.97 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +26 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gkeop 5.4.0-1046.48 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-hwe-5.15 5.15.0-41.44~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-ibm 5.4.0-1033.37 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg-5.15 5.15.0-1008.11~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-iot 5.4.0-1004.6 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-kvm 5.4.0-1075.80 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15 5.15.0-42.45~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-oracle 5.4.0-1083.91 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-raspi 5.4.0-1070.80 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux 4.15.0-191.202 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-aws 4.15.0-1139.150 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-aws-5.4 5.4.0-1085.92~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-azure-4.15 4.15.0-1149.164 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-azure-5.4 5.4.0-1091.96~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp-4.15 4.15.0-1134.150 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp-5.4 5.4.0-1089.97~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-hwe-5.4 5.4.0-126.142~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-ibm-5.4 5.4.0-1033.37~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-kvm 4.15.0-1125.130 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-oracle 4.15.0-1104.115 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-oracle-5.4 5.4.0-1083.91~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-raspi-5.4 5.4.0-1070.80~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-realtime 5.15.0-1014.14 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 20.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 18.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 16.04 LTS linux-fips No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-aws-fips 5.4.0-1085.92+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-azure-fips 5.4.0-1091.96+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-fips 5.4.0-1061.69 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-gcp-fips 5.4.0-1089.97+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 18.04 LTS linux-aws-fips 4.15.0-2078.83 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 18.04 LTS linux-azure-fips 4.15.0-2059.65 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 18.04 LTS linux-fips 4.15.0-1096.107 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 18.04 LTS linux-gcp-fips 4.15.0-2043.48 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 16.04 LTS linux-fips No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux +2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux-aws-hwe 4.15.0-1139.150~16.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux-azure 4.15.0-1149.164~16.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux-gcp 4.15.0-1134.150~16.04.2 —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux-hwe 4.15.0-191.202~16.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux-oracle 4.15.0-1104.115~16.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS linux +2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS linux-azure 4.15.0-1149.164~14.04.1 —
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