CVE-2022-48991

Summary

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinuxf3f0e1d2150b2b99da2cbdfaad000089efe9bf30 < 275c626c131cfe141beeb6c575e31fa53d32da19affected
LinuxLinuxf3f0e1d2150b2b99da2cbdfaad000089efe9bf30 < c23105673228c349739e958fa33955ed8faddcafaffected
LinuxLinuxf3f0e1d2150b2b99da2cbdfaad000089efe9bf30 < ff2a1a6f869650aec99e9d070b5ab625bfbc5bc3affected
LinuxLinuxf3f0e1d2150b2b99da2cbdfaad000089efe9bf30 < 5ffc2a75534d9d74d49760f983f8eb675fa63d69affected
LinuxLinuxf3f0e1d2150b2b99da2cbdfaad000089efe9bf30 < 7f445ca2e0e59c7971d0b7b853465e50844ab596affected
LinuxLinuxf3f0e1d2150b2b99da2cbdfaad000089efe9bf30 < 1a3f8c6cd29d9078cc81b29d39d0e9ae1d6a03c3affected
LinuxLinuxf3f0e1d2150b2b99da2cbdfaad000089efe9bf30 < 5450535901d89a5dcca5fbbc59a24fe89caeb465affected
LinuxLinuxf3f0e1d2150b2b99da2cbdfaad000089efe9bf30 < f268f6cf875f3220afc77bdd0bf1bb136eb54db9affected
LinuxLinux4.8affected
LinuxLinux0 < 4.8unaffected
LinuxLinux4.9.337 <= 4.9.*unaffected
LinuxLinux4.14.303 <= 4.14.*unaffected
LinuxLinux4.19.270 <= 4.19.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.4.227 <= 5.4.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.10.159 <= 5.10.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.15.83 <= 5.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.0.13 <= 6.0.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.1 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

References