7.8

CVE-2022-48991

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

mm/khugepaged: invoke MMU notifiers in shmem/file collapse paths

Any codepath that zaps page table entries must invoke MMU notifiers to
ensure that secondary MMUs (like KVM) don't keep accessing pages which
aren't mapped anymore.  Secondary MMUs don't hold their own references to
pages that are mirrored over, so failing to notify them can lead to page
use-after-free.

I'm marking this as addressing an issue introduced in commit f3f0e1d2150b
("khugepaged: add support of collapse for tmpfs/shmem pages"), but most of
the security impact of this only came in commit 27e1f8273113 ("khugepaged:
enable collapse pmd for pte-mapped THP"), which actually omitted flushes
for the removal of present PTEs, not just for the removal of empty page
tables.
Data is provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 4.8 < 4.9.337
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 4.10 < 4.14.303
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 4.15 < 4.19.270
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 4.20 < 5.4.227
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.5 < 5.10.159
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.11 < 5.15.83
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.16 < 6.0.13
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.1 Updaterc1
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.1 Updaterc2
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.1 Updaterc3
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.1 Updaterc4
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.1 Updaterc5
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.1 Updaterc6
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.1 Updaterc7
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Type Source Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.05% 0.152
CVSS Metriken
Source Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector string
nvd@nist.gov 7.8 1.8 5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-416 Use After Free

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.