linux-cve-announce - CVE-2022-50073: net: tap: NULL pointer derefence in dev_parse_header

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Message-ID: <2025061854-CVE-2022-50073-7199@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 13:02:18 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2022-50073: net: tap: NULL pointer derefence in dev_parse_header_protocol when skb->dev is null

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

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

net: tap: NULL pointer derefence in dev_parse_header_protocol when skb->dev is null

Fixes a NULL pointer derefence bug triggered from tap driver.
When tap_get_user calls virtio_net_hdr_to_skb the skb->dev is null
(in tap.c skb->dev is set after the call to virtio_net_hdr_to_skb)
virtio_net_hdr_to_skb calls dev_parse_header_protocol which
needs skb->dev field to be valid.

The line that trigers the bug is in dev_parse_header_protocol
(dev is at offset 0x10 from skb and is stored in RAX register)
  if (!dev->header_ops || !dev->header_ops->parse_protocol)
  22e1:   mov    0x10(%rbx),%rax
  22e5:	  mov    0x230(%rax),%rax

Setting skb->dev before the call in tap.c fixes the issue.

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000230
RIP: 0010:virtio_net_hdr_to_skb.constprop.0+0x335/0x410 [tap]
Code: c0 0f 85 b7 fd ff ff eb d4 41 39 c6 77 cf 29 c6 48 89 df 44 01 f6 e8 7a 79 83 c1 48 85 c0 0f 85 d9 fd ff ff eb b7 48 8b 43 10 <48> 8b 80 30 02 00 00 48 85 c0 74 55 48 8b 40 28 48 85 c0 74 4c 48
RSP: 0018:ffffc90005c27c38 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888298f25300 RCX: 0000000000000010
RDX: 0000000000000005 RSI: ffffc90005c27cb6 RDI: ffff888298f25300
RBP: ffffc90005c27c80 R08: 00000000ffffffea R09: 00000000000007e8
R10: ffff88858ec77458 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 0000000000000014 R14: ffffc90005c27e08 R15: ffffc90005c27cb6
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88858ec40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000230 CR3: 0000000281408006 CR4: 00000000003706e0
Call Trace:
 tap_get_user+0x3f1/0x540 [tap]
 tap_sendmsg+0x56/0x362 [tap]
 ? get_tx_bufs+0xc2/0x1e0 [vhost_net]
 handle_tx_copy+0x114/0x670 [vhost_net]
 handle_tx+0xb0/0xe0 [vhost_net]
 handle_tx_kick+0x15/0x20 [vhost_net]
 vhost_worker+0x7b/0xc0 [vhost]
 ? vhost_vring_call_reset+0x40/0x40 [vhost]
 kthread+0xfa/0x120
 ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-50073 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 5.12 with commit 924a9bc362a5223cd448ca08c3dde21235adc310 and fixed in 5.19.4 with commit dd29648fcf69339713f2d25f7014ae905dcdfc18
	Issue introduced in 5.12 with commit 924a9bc362a5223cd448ca08c3dde21235adc310 and fixed in 6.0 with commit 4f61f133f354853bc394ec7d6028adb9b02dd701
	Issue introduced in 4.14.226 with commit ea3fb2ce5fa794d02135f5c079e05cd6fc3f545d
	Issue introduced in 4.19.181 with commit 54ef8243c3c8e90f1ea5792e6752e021a25c8eb3
	Issue introduced in 5.4.106 with commit ca278267d6cd9544645731732455b6b20cb0e895
	Issue introduced in 5.10.24 with commit faa3baa2828c5e1c4374f3e60041f75c64f5fcb6
	Issue introduced in 5.11.7 with commit 99b1d3f74b9ef72c2f74c8e4c078e1bc0706e748

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2022-50073
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	drivers/net/tap.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd29648fcf69339713f2d25f7014ae905dcdfc18
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f61f133f354853bc394ec7d6028adb9b02dd701