CVE-2026-19737 Desreferencia de puntero NULL en el driver I2S de ESP32

Qué es CVE-2026-19737

i2s_esp32_trigger_check() en drivers/i2s/i2s_esp32.c valida la dirección solicitada solo para I2S_DIR_BOTH; las ramas I2S_DIR_RX e I2S_DIR_TX leen los punteros de stream sin verificarlos primero. En una instancia que solo describe una dirección, la otra desreferencia un puntero NULL en lugar de devolver un error, y el argumento dir llega al driver sin validar desde la syscall i2s_trigger().

Productos y versiones afectadas

• zephyrproject zephyr

  • desde 4.4.0 hasta antes de 4.5.0

Qué hacer

1. Verificá si usás zephyr y en qué versión: el rango afectado figura arriba.
2. Actualizá a la versión corregida que indique el fabricante en su aviso (ver referencias) o aplicá la mitigación que publique.
3. Revisá registros y accesos de los sistemas expuestos para descartar que se haya aprovechado antes de corregir.

Calculadora CVSS

CVSS 3.1 · 5.5 MEDIA

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

VECTOR DE ATAQUE (AV)

Local

COMPLEJIDAD DEL ATAQUE (AC)

Baja

PRIVILEGIOS REQUERIDOS (PR)

Bajos

INTERACCIÓN DEL USUARIO (UI)

Ninguna

ALCANCE (S)

Sin cambio

CONFIDENCIALIDAD (C)

Ninguna

INTEGRIDAD (I)

Ninguna

DISPONIBILIDAD (A)

Alta

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Descripción original

i2s_esp32_trigger_check() in drivers/i2s/i2s_esp32.c validates the requested direction only for I2S_DIR_BOTH. The I2S_DIR_RX and I2S_DIR_TX branches read dev_cfg->rx.data->configured / dev_cfg->tx.data->configured without first checking the stream pointers. The device instantiation macro I2S_ESP32_STREAM_INIT() sets both .conf and .data to NULL for a direction the devicetree does not describe, so on an instance that wires only one direction — the normal shape for audio output or a worldsemi,ws2812-i2s LED strip — the other direction dereferences a NULL pointer instead of returning an error. i2s_trigger() is a Zephyr syscall, and z_vrfy_i2s_trigger() in drivers/i2s/i2s_handlers.c validates only the device object and the presence of the trigger API pointer; the dir argument is passed to the driver unvalidated. On a build with CONFIG_USERSPACE enabled, a user-mode thread that has been granted the I2S device can issue a single i2s_trigger() call naming the unwired direction and cause a load from address 0 in kernel mode. Among the Espressif parts that carry this driver, userspace is available in-tree only on RISC-V SoCs with CONFIG_RISCV_PMP, and v4.4.0 is the first release where that is buildable: the ESP32-C6 HPCORE selects RISCV_PMP when it is not built for MCUboot. ESP32-C5 in v4.4.x carries the same PMP-region and userspace linker support but does not select RISCV_PMP by default. Espressif Xtensa targets do not support Zephyr userspace, and in a non-userspace build the bad direction can only come from in-kernel application code. The impact is limited to availability: the access is a read at offset 0 of the missing stream structure, so there is no attacker-controlled offset, no write primitive and no information disclosure. With the default fatal-error handler the resulting exception halts the system, giving an unprivileged user-mode thread a system-wide denial of service. The fix adds the same pointer check the I2S_DIR_BOTH branch already performed and returns -ENOSYS for a direction the instance does not implement; the driver's other entry points (i2s_esp32_config_check(), i2s_esp32_config_get(), i2s_esp32_read(), i2s_esp32_write()) already guarded the pointers, and a static audit found no equivalent unguarded path. The driver defect is older than the affected range. The unguarded dereference is present from v4.2.0 (reached through i2s_esp32_trigger_stream(), whose if (stream) guard tests the address of a struct member and is never false) and takes its present i2s_esp32_trigger_check() form in v4.3.0. No in-tree Espressif configuration before v4.4.0 can run a user-mode thread, so in v4.2.x and v4.3.x the direction argument can only come from trusted kernel code. Those releases carry the bug but are not listed as affected; the fix has also been merged to v4.3-branch as hardening.

Referencias

• github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/commit/0d82dbbe72f154de32cc45021a9f59d9a737246bPATCH
• github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/security/advisories/GHSA-5g9q-h8wq-rrf3

Historial de la alerta

1. 11 OCT · 16:24VULNERABILIDAD Nueva vulnerabilidad detectada.

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