Bug 2373696 (CVE-2022-50159) - CVE-2022-50159 kernel: of: check previous kernel's ima-kexec-buffer against memory bounds
Summary: CVE-2022-50159 kernel: of: check previous kernel's ima-kexec-buffer against m...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-50159
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-06-18 12:14 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-06-18 14:35 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-06-18 12:14:11 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

of: check previous kernel's ima-kexec-buffer against memory bounds

Presently ima_get_kexec_buffer() doesn't check if the previous kernel's
ima-kexec-buffer lies outside the addressable memory range. This can result
in a kernel panic if the new kernel is booted with 'mem=X' arg and the
ima-kexec-buffer was allocated beyond that range by the previous kernel.
The panic is usually of the form below:

$ sudo kexec --initrd initrd vmlinux --append='mem=16G'

<snip>
 BUG: Unable to handle kernel data access on read at 0xc000c01fff7f0000
 Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000837974
 Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
<snip>
 NIP [c000000000837974] ima_restore_measurement_list+0x94/0x6c0
 LR [c00000000083b55c] ima_load_kexec_buffer+0xac/0x160
 Call Trace:
 [c00000000371fa80] [c00000000083b55c] ima_load_kexec_buffer+0xac/0x160
 [c00000000371fb00] [c0000000020512c4] ima_init+0x80/0x108
 [c00000000371fb70] [c0000000020514dc] init_ima+0x4c/0x120
 [c00000000371fbf0] [c000000000012240] do_one_initcall+0x60/0x2c0
 [c00000000371fcc0] [c000000002004ad0] kernel_init_freeable+0x344/0x3ec
 [c00000000371fda0] [c0000000000128a4] kernel_init+0x34/0x1b0
 [c00000000371fe10] [c00000000000ce64] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64
 Instruction dump:
 f92100b8 f92100c0 90e10090 910100a0 4182050c 282a0017 3bc00000 40810330
 7c0802a6 fb610198 7c9b2378 f80101d0 <a1240000> 2c090001 40820614 e9240010
 ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Fix this issue by checking returned PFN range of previous kernel's
ima-kexec-buffer with page_is_ram() to ensure correct memory bounds.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-06-18 14:22:26 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025061825-CVE-2022-50159-a387@gregkh/T


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