dma-buf: heaps: Fix potential spectre v1 gadget
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dma-buf: heaps: Fix potential spectre v1 gadget It appears like nr could be a Spectre v1 gadget as it's supplied by a user and used as an array index. Prevent the contents of kernel memory from being leaked to userspace via speculative execution by using array_index_nospec. [sumits: added fixes and cc: stable tags]
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dma-buf: heaps: Fix potential spectre v1 gadget It appears like nr could be a Spectre v1 gadget as it's supplied by a user and used as an array index. Prevent the contents of kernel memory from being leaked to userspace via speculative execution by using array_index_nospec. [sumits: added fixes and cc: stable tags]
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24f8e12d965b24f8aea762589e0e9fe2025c005e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d40f1bdad3dd1a177f21a90ad4353c1ed40ba3a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92c4cfaee6872038563c5b6f2e8e613f9d84d47d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cc8f7940d9c2d45f67b3d1a2f2b7a829ca561bed
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/48xxx/CVE-2022-48730.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-48730