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CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
comedi: ni_atmio16d: Fix invalid clean-up after failed attach
If the driver's COMEDI "attach" handler function (atmio16d_attach()) returns an error, the COMEDI core will call the driver's "detach" handler function (atmio16d_detach()) to clean up. This calls reset_atmio16d() unconditionally, but depending on where the error occurred in the attach handler, the device may not have been sufficiently initialized to call reset_atmio16d(). It uses dev->iobase as the I/O port base address and dev->private as the pointer to the COMEDI device's private data structure. dev->iobase may still be set to its initial value of 0, which would result in undesired writes to low I/O port addresses. dev->private may still be NULL, which would result in null pointer dereferences.
Fix atmio16d_detach() by checking that dev->private is valid (non-null) before calling reset_atmio16d(). This implies that dev->iobase was set correctly since that is set up before dev->private.
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Null pointer dereference and invalid I/O port writes in the Linux kernel's comedi ni_atmio16d driver occur when the device attach handler fails, causing the detach handler to call reset_atmio16d() with uninitialized device state. Local privileged attackers can trigger a denial of service by causing attach to fail, resulting in kernel memory access violations or writes to address zero. …
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