Description

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

media: mtk-jpeg: Fix null-ptr-deref during unload module

The workqueue should be destroyed in mtk_jpeg_core.c since commit
09aea13ecf6f ("media: mtk-jpeg: refactor some variables"), otherwise
the below calltrace can be easily triggered.

[ 677.862514] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address dfff800000000023
[ 677.863633] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000118-0x000000000000011f]
...
[ 677.879654] CPU: 6 PID: 1071 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G O 6.8.12-mtk+gfa1a78e5d24b+ #17
...
[ 677.882838] pc : destroy_workqueue+0x3c/0x770
[ 677.883413] lr : mtk_jpegdec_destroy_workqueue+0x70/0x88 [mtk_jpeg_dec_hw]
[ 677.884314] sp : ffff80008ad974f0
[ 677.884744] x29: ffff80008ad974f0 x28: ffff0000d7115580 x27: ffff0000dd691070
[ 677.885669] x26: ffff0000dd691408 x25: ffff8000844af3e0 x24: ffff80008ad97690
[ 677.886592] x23: ffff0000e051d400 x22: ffff0000dd691010 x21: dfff800000000000
[ 677.887515] x20: 0000000000000000 x19: 0000000000000000 x18: ffff800085397ac0
[ 677.888438] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: ffff8000801b87c8 x15: 1ffff000115b2e10
[ 677.889361] x14: 00000000f1f1f1f1 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: ffff7000115b2e4d
[ 677.890285] x11: 1ffff000115b2e4c x10: ffff7000115b2e4c x9 : ffff80000aa43e90
[ 677.891208] x8 : 00008fffeea4d1b4 x7 : ffff80008ad97267 x6 : 0000000000000001
[ 677.892131] x5 : ffff80008ad97260 x4 : ffff7000115b2e4d x3 : 0000000000000000
[ 677...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-56577

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 5.08% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-04 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ba08c21c6a92e6512e73644555120427c9a49d4
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc3889a39baf783c64c6d628bbb74d76ce164bb1
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/17af2b39daf12870cac61ffc360e62bc35798afb

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