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CVE-2022-50232 (GCVE-0-2022-50232)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-18 11:04 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:15
VLAI
Title
arm64: set UXN on swapper page tables
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: arm64: set UXN on swapper page tables [ This issue was fixed upstream by accident in c3cee924bd85 ("arm64: head: cover entire kernel image in initial ID map") as part of a large refactoring of the arm64 boot flow. This simple fix is therefore preferred for -stable backporting ] On a system that implements FEAT_EPAN, read/write access to the idmap is denied because UXN is not set on the swapper PTEs. As a result, idmap_kpti_install_ng_mappings panics the kernel when accessing __idmap_kpti_flag. Fix it by setting UXN on these PTEs.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 18107f8a2df6bf1c6cac8d0713f757f866d5af51 , < 775871d4be0d75e219cca937af843a4a1b60489a (git)
Affected: 18107f8a2df6bf1c6cac8d0713f757f866d5af51 , < c3cee924bd855184d15bc4aa6088dcf8e2c1394c (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.13
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.13 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.60 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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