CVE Catalog

CVE-2022-49286

MediumCVSS 4.7
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.23%

14th percentile - higher than 14% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, an issue in tpm2_del_space() in the TPM module was fixed, where missing use of try_get_ops() could lead to a NULL pointer dereference in a tiny race window.

Risk Assessment

NULL pointer dereference can lead to system or TPM-related service crash.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix for CVE-2022-49286.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tpm: use try_get_ops() in tpm-space.c As part of the series conversion to remove nested TPM operations: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ exposure of the chip->tpm_mutex was removed from much of the upper level code. In this conversion, tpm2_del_space() was missed. This didn't matter much because it's usually called closely after a converted operation, so there's only a very tiny race window where the chip can be removed before the space flushing is done which causes a NULL deref on the mutex. However, there are reports of this window being hit in practice, so fix this by converting tpm2_del_space() to use tpm_try_get_ops(), which performs all the teardown checks before acquring the mutex.

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