vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2022-48904: kernel: iommu/amd: Fix I/O page table memory leak

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 22, 2024
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

Description

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

iommu/amd: Fix I/O page table memory leak

The current logic updates the I/O page table mode for the domain
before calling the logic to free memory used for the page table.
This results in IOMMU page table memory leak, and can be observed
when launching VM w/ pass-through devices.

Fix by freeing the memory used for page table before updating the mode.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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