CVE-2022-48772 — media: lgdt3306a: Add a check against null-pointer-def

Affected: Linux

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

media: lgdt3306a: Add a check against null-pointer-def

The driver should check whether the client provides the platform_data.

The following log reveals it:

[ 29.610324] BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in kmemdup+0x30/0x40 [ 29.610730] Read of size 40 at addr 0000000000000000 by task bash/414 [ 29.612820] Call Trace: [ 29.613030] <TASK> [ 29.613201] dump_stack_lvl+0x56/0x6f [ 29.613496] ? kmemdup+0x30/0x40 [ 29.613754] print_report.cold+0x494/0x6b7 [ 29.614082] ? kmemdup+0x30/0x40 [ 29.614340] kasan_report+0x8a/0x190 [ 29.614628] ? kmemdup+0x30/0x40 [ 29.614888] kasan_check_range+0x14d/0x1d0 [ 29.615213] memcpy+0x20/0x60 [ 29.615454] kmemdup+0x30/0x40 [ 29.615700] lgdt3306a_probe+0x52/0x310 [ 29.616339] i2c_device_probe+0x951/0xa90

USN-6951-1 — linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.4, linux-…

Affected: Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS: linux-aws-5.4, Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS: linux-gcp-5.4, Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS: linux-hwe-5.4, Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS: linux-ibm-5.4, Ubuntu:20.04:LTS: linux, Ubuntu:20.04:LTS: linux-aws, Ubuntu:20.04:LTS: linux-gcp, Ubuntu:20.04:LTS: linux-gkeop, Ubuntu:20.04:LTS: linux-ibm, Ubuntu:20.04:LTS: linux-iot and 3 more

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - ARM64 architecture; - M68K architecture; - User-Mode Linux (UML); - x86 architecture; - Accessibility subsystem; - Character device driver; - Clock framework and drivers; - CPU frequency scaling framework; - Hardware crypto device drivers; - Buffer Sharing and Synchronization framework; - FireWire subsystem; - GPU drivers; - HW tracing; - Macintosh device drivers; - Multiple devices driver; - Media drivers; - Network drivers; - Pin controllers subsystem; - S/390 drivers; - SCSI drivers; - SoundWire subsystem; - Greybus lights staging drivers; - TTY drivers; - Framebuffer layer; - Virtio drivers; - 9P distributed file system; - eCrypt file system; - EROFS file system; - Ext4 file system; - F2FS file system; - JFFS2 file system; - Network file system client; - NILFS2 file system; - SMB network file system; - Kernel debugger infrastructure; - IRQ subsystem; - Tracing infrastructure; - Dynamic debug library; - 9P file system network protocol; - Bluetooth subsystem; - Networking core; - IPv4 networking; - IPv6 networking; - Netfilter; - NET/ROM layer; - NFC subsystem; - NSH protocol; - Open vSwitch; - Phonet protocol; - TIPC protocol; - Unix domain sockets; - Wireless networking; - eXpress Data Pa…

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CVE-2022-48772 — media: lgdt3306a: Add a check against null-pointer-def

USN-6951-1 — linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.4, linux-…