CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-49077

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-02-26 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-02-26
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-193

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mmmremap.c: avoid pointless invalidate_range_start/end on mremap(old_size=0) If an mremap() syscall with old_size=0 ends up in move_page_tables(), it will call invalidate_range_start()/invalidate_range_end() unnecessarily, i.e. with an empty range. This causes a WARN in KVM's mmu_notifier. In the past, empty ranges have been diagnosed to be off-by-one bugs, hence the WARNing. Given the low (so far) number of unique reports, the benefits of detecting more buggy callers seem to outweigh the cost of having to fix cases such as this one, where userspace is doing something silly. In this particular case, an early return from move_page_tables() is enough to fix the issue.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 4.9.311) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.14.276) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.238) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.189) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.111) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.34) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.16.20) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.17 < 5.17.3) • linux linux kernel 5.18

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-193 Off-by-one Error weakness

References