net: rfkill: gpio: Fix crash due to dereferencering uninitialized pointer
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: rfkill: gpio: Fix crash due to dereferencering uninitialized pointer
Since commit 7d5e9737efda ("net: rfkill: gpio: get the name and type from device property") rfkill_find_type() gets called with the possibly uninitialized "const char *type_name;" local variable.
On x86 systems when rfkill-gpio binds to a "BCM4752" or "LNV4752" acpi_device, the rfkill->type is set based on the ACPI acpi_device_id:
rfkill->type = (unsigned)id->driver_data;
and there is no "type" property so device_property_read_string() will fail and leave type_name uninitialized, leading to a potential crash.
rfkill_find_type() does accept a NULL pointer, fix the potential crash by initializing type_name to NULL.
Note likely sofar this has not been caught because:
- Not many x86 machines actually have a "BCM4752"/"LNV4752" acpi_device
- The stack happened to contain NULL where type_name is stored
Affected products
2- Linux/Linuxv5Range: 4.6
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
8- git.kernel.org/stable/c/184f608a68f96794e8fe58cd5535014d53622cdemitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/21a39b958b4bcf44f7674bfbbe1bbb8cad0d842dmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/21ba85d9d508422ca9e6698463ff9357c928c22dmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/47ade5f9d70b23a119ec20b1c6504864b2543a79mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/689aee35ce671aab752f159e5c8e66d7685e6887mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/8793e7a8e1b60131a825457174ed6398111daeb7mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ada2282259243387e6b6e89239aeb4897e62f051mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b6f56a44e4c1014b08859dcf04ed246500e310e5mitre
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