oss-security - Linux kernel: io_uring: free of unallocated buffer list in io_register_pbuf

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Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2022 13:20:20 +0200
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Dipanjan Das <mail.dipanjan.das@...il.com>,
	Dylan Yudaken <dylany@...com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Subject: Linux kernel: io_uring: free of unallocated buffer list in io_register_pbuf_ring()

Hi,

I think this wasn't reported in here before, and has no CVE ID?

Writeup in Chinese dated July 29:

https://dawnslab.jd.com/linux-5.19-rc2_pbuf_ring_0day/

Fix dated July 21, per the writeup included in 5.19-rc8:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ec8516f3b7c40ba7050e6b3a32467e9de451ecdf

Per the Fixes tag, the bug was introduced in May, in:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c7fb19428d67

Alexander

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