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CVE-2022-49894
published 2025-05-01

CVE-2022-49894: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cxl/region: Fix region HPA ordering validation Some regions may not have any address space…

PriorityP419medium5.5CVSS 3.1
AVLACLPRLUINSUCNINAH
EPSS
0.16%
5.5th percentile
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cxl/region: Fix region HPA ordering validation Some regions may not have any address space allocated. Skip them when validating HPA order otherwise a crash like the following may result: devm_cxl_add_region: cxl_acpi cxl_acpi.0: decoder3.4: created region9 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 [..] RIP: 0010:store_targetN+0x655/0x1740 [cxl_core] [..] Call Trace: kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x144/0x200 vfs_write+0x24a/0x4d0 ksys_write+0x69/0xf0 do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x90 store_targetN+0x655/0x1740: alloc_region_ref at drivers/cxl/core/region.c:676 (inlined by) cxl_port_attach_region at drivers/cxl/core/region.c:850 (inlined by) cxl_region_attach at drivers/cxl/core/region.c:1290 (inlined by) attach_target at drivers/cxl/core/region.c:1410 (inlined by) store_targetN at drivers/cxl/core/region.c:1453

Affected

9 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianlinux< linux 6.0.8-1 (bookworm)linux 6.0.8-1 (bookworm)
linuxlinux
linuxlinux>= 384e624bb211b406db40edc900bb51af8bb267d0 < 12316b9f7c18138ae656050cfd716728e27b7e2f12316b9f7c18138ae656050cfd716728e27b7e2f
linuxlinux>= 384e624bb211b406db40edc900bb51af8bb267d0 < a90accb358ae33ea982a35595573f7a045993f8ba90accb358ae33ea982a35595573f7a045993f8b
linuxlinux_kernel
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.0.8-16.0.8-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.0.8-16.0.8-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.0.8-16.0.8-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.0 < 6.0.86.0.8

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.15.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
osv5.5MEDIUM
vendor_debian5.5MEDIUM
vendor_redhat5.5MEDIUM
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