Vulnerability CVE-2024-44931


Published: 2024-08-26

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

gpio: prevent potential speculation leaks in gpio_device_get_desc()

Userspace may trigger a speculative read of an address outside the gpio
descriptor array.
Users can do that by calling gpio_ioctl() with an offset out of range.
Offset is copied from user and then used as an array index to get
the gpio descriptor without sanitization in gpio_device_get_desc().

This change ensures that the offset is sanitized by using
array_index_nospec() to mitigate any possibility of speculative
information leaks.

This bug was discovered and resolved using Coverity Static Analysis
Security Testing (SAST) by Synopsys, Inc.

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b955f786a4bcde8c0ccb2b7d519def2acb6f3cc
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d776c0486b03a5c4afca65b8ff44573592bf93bb
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d795848ecce24a75dfd46481aee066ae6fe39775

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