CVE-2022-49828

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 5.15.80, 5.16.0-6.0.10, >=4.13.0 <5.15.80 - Use-After-Free in HugeTLBFS Error Page Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hugetlbfs: don't delete error page from pagecache This change is very similar to the change that was made for shmem [1], and it solves the same problem but for HugeTLBFS instead. Currently, when poison is found in a HugeTLB page, the page is removed from the page cache. That means that attempting to map or read that hugepage in the future will result in a new hugepage being allocated instead of notifying the user that the page was poisoned. As [1] states, this is effectively memory corruption. The fix is to leave the page in the page cache. If the user attempts to use a poisoned HugeTLB page with a syscall, the syscall will fail with EIO, the same error code that shmem uses. For attempts to map the page, the thread will get a BUS_MCEERR_AR SIGBUS. [1]: commit a76054266661 ("mm: shmem: don't truncate page if memory failure happens")

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0016
EPSS Percentile 5.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-401
Status published
Products (12)
linux/Kernel 4.13.0 - 5.15.80linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.0.10linux
Linux/Linux < 4.13
Linux/Linux 4.13
Linux/Linux 5.15.80 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 6.0.10 - 6.0.*
Linux/Linux 6.1
Linux/Linux 78bb920344b8a6f04b79a7c254041723b931c94f - 30571f28bb35c826219971c63bcf60d2517112ed
Linux/Linux 78bb920344b8a6f04b79a7c254041723b931c94f - 8625147cafaa9ba74713d682f5185eb62cb2aedb
Linux/Linux 78bb920344b8a6f04b79a7c254041723b931c94f - ec667443b2dbc6cdbbac4073e51a17733158ec6a
... and 2 more
Published May 01, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026