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Use of Uninitialized Variable

CVE-2022-2308

Severity Medium
Score 6.5/10

Summary

A flaw was found in vDPA with VDUSE backend. There are currently no checks in VDUSE kernel driver to ensure the size of the device config space is in line with the features advertised by the VDUSE userspace application. In case of a mismatch, Virtio drivers config read helpers do not initialize the memory indirectly passed to vduse_vdpa_get_config() returning uninitialized memory from the stack. This could cause undefined behavior or data leaks in Virtio drivers.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • CHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-457 - Use of Uninitialized Variable

The code uses a variable that has not been initialized, leading to unpredictable or unintended results.

References

Advisory Timeline

  • Published