Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-49130

high Nessus Plugin ID 225310

Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

- In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ath11k: mhi: use mhi_sync_power_up() If amss.bin was missing ath11k would crash during 'rmmod ath11k_pci'. The reason for that was that we were using mhi_async_power_up() which does not check any errors. But mhi_sync_power_up() on the other hand does check for errors so let's use that to fix the crash. I was not able to find a reason why an async version was used. ath11k_mhi_start() (which enables state ATH11K_MHI_POWER_ON) is called from ath11k_hif_power_up(), which can sleep. So sync version should be safe to use here. [ 145.569731] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC KASAN PTI [ 145.569789] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007] [ 145.569843] CPU: 2 PID: 1628 Comm: rmmod Kdump: loaded Tainted:
G W 5.16.0-wt-ath+ #567 [ 145.569898] Hardware name: Intel(R) Client Systems NUC8i7HVK/NUC8i7HVB, BIOS HNKBLi70.86A.0067.2021.0528.1339 05/28/2021 [ 145.569956] RIP:
0010:ath11k_hal_srng_access_begin+0xb5/0x2b0 [ath11k] [ 145.570028] Code: df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 80 3c 02 00 0f 85 ec 01 00 00 48 8b ab a8 00 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 ea 48 c1 ea 03 <0f> b6 14 02 48 89 e8 83 e0 07 83 c0 03 45 85 ed 75 48 38 d0 7c 08 [ 145.570089] RSP: 0018:ffffc900025d7ac0 EFLAGS:
00010246 [ 145.570144] RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffff88814fca2dd8 RCX: 1ffffffff50cb455 [ 145.570196] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff88814fca2dd8 RDI: ffff88814fca2e80 [ 145.570252] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08:
0000000000000000 R09: ffffffffa8659497 [ 145.570329] R10: fffffbfff50cb292 R11: 0000000000000001 R12:
ffff88814fca0000 [ 145.570410] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff88814fca2798 R15: ffff88814fca2dd8 [ 145.570465] FS: 00007fa399988540(0000) GS:ffff888233e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 145.570519] CS:
0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 145.570571] CR2: 00007fa399b51421 CR3: 0000000137898002 CR4: 00000000003706e0 [ 145.570623] Call Trace: [ 145.570675] <TASK> [ 145.570727] ? ath11k_ce_tx_process_cb+0x34b/0x860 [ath11k] [ 145.570797] ath11k_ce_tx_process_cb+0x356/0x860 [ath11k] [ 145.570864] ? tasklet_init+0x150/0x150 [ 145.570919] ? ath11k_ce_alloc_pipes+0x280/0x280 [ath11k] [ 145.570986] ? tasklet_clear_sched+0x42/0xe0 [ 145.571042] ? tasklet_kill+0xe9/0x1b0 [ 145.571095] ? tasklet_clear_sched+0xe0/0xe0 [ 145.571148] ? irq_has_action+0x120/0x120 [ 145.571202] ath11k_ce_cleanup_pipes+0x45a/0x580 [ath11k] [ 145.571270] ? ath11k_pci_stop+0x10e/0x170 [ath11k_pci] [ 145.571345] ath11k_core_stop+0x8a/0xc0 [ath11k] [ 145.571434] ath11k_core_deinit+0x9e/0x150 [ath11k] [ 145.571499] ath11k_pci_remove+0xd2/0x260 [ath11k_pci] [ 145.571553] pci_device_remove+0x9a/0x1c0 [ 145.571605] __device_release_driver+0x332/0x660 [ 145.571659] driver_detach+0x1e7/0x2c0 [ 145.571712] bus_remove_driver+0xe2/0x2d0 [ 145.571772] pci_unregister_driver+0x21/0x250 [ 145.571826]
__do_sys_delete_module+0x30a/0x4b0 [ 145.571879] ? free_module+0xac0/0xac0 [ 145.571933] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare.part.0+0x18c/0x370 [ 145.571986] ? syscall_enter_from_user_mode+0x1d/0x50 [ 145.572039] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on+0x79/0x100 [ 145.572097] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 [ 145.572153] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae Tested-on: WCN6855 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HSP.1.1-03003-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-2 (CVE-2022-49130)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 225310

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2022_49130.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/5/2025

Updated: 3/5/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 3.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-49130

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/26/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-49130