CVE-2022-50299: vulnerability in Linux
md: Replace snprintf with scnprintf
Published · Updated
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 95% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
md: Replace snprintf with scnprintf
Current code produces a warning as shown below when total characters
in the constituent block device names plus the slashes exceeds 200.
snprintf() returns the number of characters generated from the given
input, which could cause the expression “200 – len” to wrap around
to a large positive number. Fix this by using scnprintf() instead,
which returns the actual number of characters written into the buffer.
[ 1513.267938] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 1513.267943] WARNING: CPU: 15 PID: 37247 at <snip>/lib/vsprintf.c:2509 vsnprintf+0x2c8/0x510
[ 1513.267944] Modules linked in: <snip>
[ 1513.267969] CPU: 15 PID: 37247 Comm: mdadm Not tainted 5.4.0-1085-azure #90~18.04.1-Ubuntu
[ 1513.267969] Hardware name: Microsoft Corporation Virtual Machine/Virtual Machine, BIOS Hyper-V UEFI Release v4.1 05/09/2022
[ 1513.267971] RIP: 0010:vsnprintf+0x2c8/0x510
<-snip->
[ 1513.267982] Call Trace:
[ 1513.267986] snprintf+0x45/0x70
[ 1513.267990] ? disk_name+0x71/0xa0
[ 1513.267993] dump_zones+0x114/0x240 [raid0]
[ 1513.267996] ? _cond_resched+0x19/0x40
[ 1513.267998] raid0_run+0x19e/0x270 [raid0]
[ 1513.268000] md_run+0x5e0/0xc50
[ 1513.268003] ? security_capable+0x3f/0x60
[ 1513.268005] do_md_run+0x19/0x110
[ 1513.268006] md_ioctl+0x195e/0x1f90
[ 1513.268007] blkdev_ioctl+0x91f/0x9f0
[ 1513.268010] block_ioctl+0x3d/0x50
[ 1513.268012] do_vfs_ioctl+0xa9/0x640
[ 1513.268014] ? __fput+0x162/0x260
[ 1513.268016] ksys_ioctl+0x75/0x80
[ 1513.268017] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x1a/0x20
[ 1513.268019] do_syscall_64+0x5e/0x200
[ 1513.268021] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
Affected products
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References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1727fd5015d8f93474148f94e34cda5aa6ad4a43https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b0a2bd51f60418ecd67493586a2bb2174199de3https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/41ca95033a0c47cd6dace1f0a36a6eb5ebe799e6https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d8259c9d1915a50c60c7d6e9e7fb9b7da64a175https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/76694e9ce0b2238c0a5f3ba54f9361dd3770ec78https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/897b1450abe5a67c842a5d24173ce4449ccdfa94https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97238b88583c27c9d3b4a0cedb45f816523f17c3https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f95825c4e51cf9a653b0ef947ac78401fc9d3a40