vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2022-49828): linux vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | May 1, 2025 | May 8, 2025 | Nov 13, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hugetlbfs: don't delete error page from pagecache
This change is very similar to the change that was made for shmem [1], and
it solves the same problem but for HugeTLBFS instead.
Currently, when poison is found in a HugeTLB page, the page is removed
from the page cache. That means that attempting to map or read that
hugepage in the future will result in a new hugepage being allocated
instead of notifying the user that the page was poisoned. As [1] states,
this is effectively memory corruption.
The fix is to leave the page in the page cache. If the user attempts to
use a poisoned HugeTLB page with a syscall, the syscall will fail with
EIO, the same error code that shmem uses. For attempts to map the page,
the thread will get a BUS_MCEERR_AR SIGBUS.
[1]: commit a76054266661 ("mm: shmem: don't truncate page if memory failure happens")
Solutions
References
- CVE-2022-49828
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2022-49828
- CWE-401
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/linus/8625147cafaa9ba74713d682f5185eb62cb2aedb
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/30571f28bb35c826219971c63bcf60d2517112ed
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8625147cafaa9ba74713d682f5185eb62cb2aedb
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec667443b2dbc6cdbbac4073e51a17733158ec6a
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49828
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