CVE-2022-50012

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 4.9.326, 5.15.0-5.15.62, 5.16.0-5.19.3 - Denial of Service via Early Static Key Initialization

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/64: Init jump labels before parse_early_param() On 64-bit, calling jump_label_init() in setup_feature_keys() is too late because static keys may be used in subroutines of parse_early_param() which is again subroutine of early_init_devtree(). For example booting with "threadirqs": static_key_enable_cpuslocked(): static key '0xc000000002953260' used before call to jump_label_init() WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at kernel/jump_label.c:166 static_key_enable_cpuslocked+0xfc/0x120 ... NIP static_key_enable_cpuslocked+0xfc/0x120 LR static_key_enable_cpuslocked+0xf8/0x120 Call Trace: static_key_enable_cpuslocked+0xf8/0x120 (unreliable) static_key_enable+0x30/0x50 setup_forced_irqthreads+0x28/0x40 do_early_param+0xa0/0x108 parse_args+0x290/0x4e0 parse_early_options+0x48/0x5c parse_early_param+0x58/0x84 early_init_devtree+0xd4/0x518 early_setup+0xb4/0x214 So call jump_label_init() just before parse_early_param() in early_init_devtree(). [mpe: Add call trace to change log and minor wording edits.]

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0021
EPSS Percentile 10.7%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (11)
linux/Kernel 5.15.0 - 5.15.63linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 5.19.4linux
Linux/Linux < 5.15
Linux/Linux 5.15
Linux/Linux 5.15.63 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 5.19.4 - 5.19.*
Linux/Linux 6.0
Linux/Linux 91cc470e797828d779cd4c1efbe8519bcb358bae - 8f9357313cdcadb0a311b44c29d4eaccc7fa632f
Linux/Linux 91cc470e797828d779cd4c1efbe8519bcb358bae - ca829e05d3d4f728810cc5e4b468d9ebc7745eb3
Linux/Linux 91cc470e797828d779cd4c1efbe8519bcb358bae - e3c9e9452a8ea12d335b1e59b2c72e1b99c699b8
... and 1 more
Published Jun 18, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026