CVE-2022-50307

s390/cio: fix out-of-bounds access on cio_ignore free

HIGH
7.1
CVSS Score
Published: September 15, 2025 at 02:46 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 05:23 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.1
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390/cio: fix out-of-bounds access on cio_ignore free The channel-subsystem-driver scans for newly available devices whenever device-IDs are removed from the cio_ignore list using a command such as: echo free >/proc/cio_ignore Since an I/O device scan might interfer with running I/Os, commit 172da89ed0ea ("s390/cio: avoid excessive path-verification requests") introduced an optimization to exclude online devices from the scan. The newly added check for online devices incorrectly assumes that an I/O-subchannel's drvdata points to a struct io_subchannel_private. For devices that are bound to a non-default I/O subchannel driver, such as the vfio_ccw driver, this results in an out-of-bounds read access during each scan. Fix this by changing the scan logic to rely on a driver-independent online indication. For this we can use struct subchannel->config.ena, which is the driver's requested subchannel-enabled state. Since I/Os can only be started on enabled subchannels, this matches the intent of the original optimization of not scanning devices where I/O might be running.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

5.15 ≤ v < 5.15.785.15 ≤ v < 6.0.75.15 ≤ v < 6.15.15.1 ≤ v < 5.15.785.16 ≤ v < 6.0.7172da89ed0eaf9d9348f5decb86ad04c624b39d15.155.15 rc45.15 rc55.15 rc65.15 rc76.1 rc16.1 rc2
Vendor states this is fixed in 0e501fd0f38e42304bfa0d46a812d93f80294a87 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 106ab66cf5467726ca5ead51623043d37c06820a (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 1b6074112742f65ece71b0f299ca5a6a887d2db6 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.78 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.0.7 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1 (unaffected)

References (3)

Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0e501fd0f38e42304bfa0d46a812d93f80294a87
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/106ab66cf5467726ca5ead51623043d37c06820a
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b6074112742f65ece71b0f299ca5a6a887d2db6

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-125

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