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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2022-49562

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 2/26/2025 2:01:31 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

KVM: x86: Use __try_cmpxchg_user() to update guest PTE A/D bits

Use the recently introduced __try_cmpxchg_user() to update guest PTE A/D
bits instead of mapping the PTE into kernel address space.  The VM_PFNMAP
path is broken as it assumes that vm_pgoff is the base pfn of the mapped
VMA range, which is conceptually wrong as vm_pgoff is the offset relative
to the file and has nothing to do with the pfn.  The horrific hack worked
for the original use case (backing guest memory with /dev/mem), but leads
to accessing "random" pfns for pretty much any other VM_PFNMAP case.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38b888911e8dc89b89d8147cfb1d2dbe6373bf78
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8089e5e1d18402fb8152d6b6815450a36fffa9b0
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f122dfe4476890d60b8c679128cd2259ec96a24c