CVE-2022-49286

Medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tpm: use try_get_ops() in tpm-space.c As part of the series conversion to remove nested TPM operations: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ exposure of the chip->tpm_mutex was removed from much of the upper level code. In this conversion, tpm2_del_space() was missed. This didn't matter much because it's usually called closely after a converted operation, so there's only a very tiny race window where the chip can be removed before the space flushing is done which causes a NULL deref on the mutex. However, there are reports of this window being hit in practice, so fix this by converting tpm2_del_space() to use tpm_try_get_ops(), which performs all the teardown checks before acquring the mutex.

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.7
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux Kernel
PublishedFeb 26, 2025
First seenFeb 26, 2025

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux linux_kernel4.12 ≤ v < 5.4.188, 5.5 ≤ v < 5.10.109, 5.11 ≤ v < 5.15.32, 5.16 ≤ v < 5.16.18, 5.175.4.188, 5.10.109, 5.15.32, 5.16.18

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