Security Advisory
CVE-2022-48730
5.5
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dma-buf: heaps: Fix potential spectre v1 gadget
It appears like nr could be a Spectre v1 gadget as it's supplied by a
user and used as an array index. Prevent the contents
of kernel memory from being leaked to userspace via speculative
execution by using array_index_nospec.
[sumits: added fixes and cc: stable tags]
Published Date
June 20, 2024
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory