CVE Catalog

CVE-2024-40945

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.26%

16th percentile - higher than 16% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, iommu_sva_bind_device() may return NULL instead of an ERR_PTR error pointer, potentially leading to a NULL pointer dereference. In practice, this does not cause problems because NULL is only returned when CONFIG_IOMMU_SVA is not enabled, and drivers do not call the function in that case.

Risk Assessment

Theoretical risk of kernel NULL pointer dereference, but harmless in practice due to configuration conditions.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix for CVE-2024-40945.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu: Return right value in iommu_sva_bind_device() iommu_sva_bind_device() should return either a sva bond handle or an ERR_PTR value in error cases. Existing drivers (idxd and uacce) only check the return value with IS_ERR(). This could potentially lead to a kernel NULL pointer dereference issue if the function returns NULL instead of an error pointer. In reality, this doesn't cause any problems because iommu_sva_bind_device() only returns NULL when the kernel is not configured with CONFIG_IOMMU_SVA. In this case, iommu_dev_enable_feature(dev, IOMMU_DEV_FEAT_SVA) will return an error, and the device drivers won't call iommu_sva_bind_device() at all.

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