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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Jan 19, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 31, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

usb: typec: tcpci: fix NULL pointer issue on shared irq case

The tcpci_irq() may meet below NULL pointer dereference issue:

[ 2.641851] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000010
[ 2.641951] status 0x1, 0x37f
[ 2.650659] Mem abort info:
[ 2.656490] ESR = 0x0000000096000004
[ 2.660230] EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
[ 2.665532] SET = 0, FnV = 0
[ 2.668579] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
[ 2.671715] FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault
[ 2.676584] Data abort info:
[ 2.679459] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004, ISS2 = 0x00000000
[ 2.684936] CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
[ 2.689980] GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0
[ 2.695284] [0000000000000010] user address but active_mm is swapper
[ 2.701632] Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[ 2.707883] Modules linked in:
[ 2.710936] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 87 Comm: irq/111-2-0051 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc6-06316-g7f63786ad3d1-dirty #4
[ 2.720570] Hardware name: NXP i.MX93 11X11 EVK board (DT)
[ 2.726040] pstate: 60400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[ 2.732989] pc : tcpci_irq+0x38/0x318
[ 2.736647] lr : _tcpci_irq+0x14/0x20
[ 2.740295] sp : ffff80008324bd30
[ 2.743597] x29: ffff80008324bd70 x28: ffff800080107894 x27: ffff800082198f70
[ 2.750721] x26: ffff0000050e6680 x25: ffff000004d172ac x24: ffff0000050f0000
[ 2.757845] x23: ffff000004d17200 x22: 0000000000000001 x21: ffff0000050f0000
[ 2.764969] x20: ffff000004d17200 x19: 0000000000000000 x18: 0000000000000001
[ 2.772093] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: ffff80008183d8a0 x15: ffff00007fbab040
[ 2.779217] x14: ffff00007fb918c0 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 000000000000017a
[ 2.786341] x11: 0000000000000001 x10: 0000000000000a90 x9 : ffff80008324bd00
[ 2.793465] x8 : ffff0000050f0af0 x7 : ffff00007fbaa840 x6 : 0000000000000031
[ 2.800589] x5 : 000000000000017a x4 : 0000000000000002 x3 : 0000000000000002
[ 2.807713] x2 : ffff80008324bd3a x1 : 0000000000000010 x0 : 0000000000000000
[ 2.814838] Call trace:
[ 2.817273] tcpci_irq+0x38/0x318
[ 2.820583] _tcpci_irq+0x14/0x20
[ 2.823885] irq_thread_fn+0x2c/0xa8
[ 2.827456] irq_thread+0x16c/0x2f4
[ 2.830940] kthread+0x110/0x114
[ 2.834164] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
[ 2.837738] Code: f9426420 f9001fe0 d2800000 52800201 (f9400a60)

This may happen on shared irq case. Such as two Type-C ports share one
irq. After the first port finished tcpci_register_port(), it may trigger
interrupt. However, if the interrupt comes by chance the 2nd port finishes
devm_request_threaded_irq(), the 2nd port interrupt handler will run at
first. Then the above issue happens due to tcpci is still a NULL pointer
in tcpci_irq() when dereference to regmap.

devm_request_threaded_irq()
<-- port1 irq comes
disable_irq(client->irq);
tcpci_register_port()

This will restore the logic to the state before commit (77e85107a771 "usb:
typec: tcpci: support edge irq").

However, moving tcpci_register_port() earlier creates a problem when use
edge irq because tcpci_init() will be called before
devm_request_threaded_irq(). The tcpci_init() writes the ALERT_MASK to
the hardware to tell it to start generating interrupts but we're not ready
to deal with them yet, then the ALERT events may be missed and ALERT line
will not recover to high level forever. To avoid the issue, this will also
set ALERT_MASK register after devm_request_threaded_irq() return.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 19, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jan 19, 2025
Last updated Jan 31, 2025

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(11th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-57914

GHSA ID

GHSA-6wcr-rvpr-597h

Source code

No known source code

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