CVE-2022-48732
drm/nouveau: fix off by one in BIOS boundary checking
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Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/nouveau: fix off by one in BIOS boundary checking Bounds checking when parsing init scripts embedded in the BIOS reject access to the last byte. This causes driver initialization to fail on Apple eMac's with GeForce 2 MX GPUs, leaving the system with no working console. This is probably only seen on OpenFirmware machines like PowerPC Macs because the BIOS image provided by OF is only the used parts of the ROM, not a power-of-two blocks read from PCI directly so PCs always have empty bytes at the end that are never accessed.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b777d4d9e383d2744fc9b3a09af6ec1893c8b1a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/909d3ec1bf9f0ec534bfc081b77c0836fea7b0e2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/acc887ba88333f5fec49631f12d8cc7ebd95781c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b2a21669ee98aafc41c6d42ef15af4dab9e6e882
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d4b746e60fd8eaa8016e144223abe91158edcdad
References (8)
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CVSS
- Attack Vector
- LOCAL
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- LOW
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- HIGH
- Availability
- HIGH
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