Bug 2347787 (CVE-2022-49562)

Summary: CVE-2022-49562 kernel: KVM: x86: Use __try_cmpxchg_user() to update guest PTE A/D bits
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-02-26 03:06:44 UTC
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.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-02-26 20:52:57 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022618-CVE-2022-49562-1d2c@gregkh/T