Bug 2150979 (CVE-2022-3522)

Summary:	CVE-2022-3522 kernel: race condition in hugetlb_no_page() in mm/hugetlb.c
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	acaringi, bhu, chwhite, crwood, ddepaula, debarbos, dfreiber, dvlasenk, ezulian, hkrzesin, jarod, jburrell, jfaracco, jferlan, jforbes, jlelli, joe.lawrence, jshortt, jstancek, jwyatt, kcarcia, kernel-mgr, lgoncalv, lleshchi, lzampier, nmurray, ptalbert, qzhao, rogbas, rvrbovsk, scweaver, tyberry, vkumar, walters, williams
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	kernel 6.1-rc1	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	A vulnerability was found in hugetlb_no_page in the mm/hugetlb.c file in the Linux Kernel, where a manipulation leads to a race condition. This flaw may allow a local attacker to cause a denial of service and can lead to a kernel information leak issue.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2023-05-16 22:33:06 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	2150980, 2158120, 2158121, 2158122, 2158123
Bug Blocks:	2150981

Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2022-12-05 18:46:27 UTC

A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel and classified as problematic. This issue affects the function hugetlb_no_page of the file mm/hugetlb.c. The manipulation leads to race condition. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-211019.

Reference:
https://vuldb.com/?id.211019

Upstream patch:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f9bf6c03eca1077cae8de0e6d86427656fa42a9b

Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2022-12-05 18:46:50 UTC

Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2150980]

Comment 6 Justin M. Forbes 2023-01-19 22:55:02 UTC

This was fixed for Fedora with the 6.1.5 stable kernel rebases.

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2023-05-09 07:12:31 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2023:2148 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2148

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2023-05-09 07:51:03 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2023:2458 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2458

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2023-05-16 08:05:50 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2023:2736 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2736

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2023-05-16 08:34:34 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2023:2951 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2951

Comment 13 Product Security DevOps Team 2023-05-16 22:33:03 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2022-3522

Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2024-01-24 16:42:55 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2024:0412 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0412