CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-49885
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-05-01
- 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
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-190
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ACPI: APEI: Fix integer overflow in ghes_estatus_pool_init()
Change num_ghes from int to unsigned int, preventing an overflow
and causing subsequent vmalloc() to fail.
The overflow happens in ghes_estatus_pool_init() when calculating
len during execution of the statement below as both multiplication
operands here are signed int:
len += (num_ghes * GHES_ESOURCE_PREALLOC_MAX_SIZE);
The following call trace is observed because of this bug:
[ 9.317108] swapper/0: vmalloc error: size 18446744071562596352, exceeds total pages, mode:0xcc0(GFP_KERNEL), nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0-1
[ 9.317131] Call Trace:
[ 9.317134] <TASK>
[ 9.317137] dump_stack_lvl+0x49/0x5f
[ 9.317145] dump_stack+0x10/0x12
[ 9.317146] warn_alloc.cold+0x7b/0xdf
[ 9.317150] ? __device_attach+0x16a/0x1b0
[ 9.317155] __vmalloc_node_range+0x702/0x740
[ 9.317160] ? device_add+0x17f/0x920
[ 9.317164] ? dev_set_name+0x53/0x70
[ 9.317166] ? platform_device_add+0xf9/0x240
[ 9.317168] __vmalloc_node+0x49/0x50
[ 9.317170] ? ghes_estatus_pool_init+0x43/0xa0
[ 9.317176] vmalloc+0x21/0x30
[ 9.317177] ghes_estatus_pool_init+0x43/0xa0
[ 9.317179] acpi_hest_init+0x129/0x19c
[ 9.317185] acpi_init+0x434/0x4a4
[ 9.317188] ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x2a/0x2a
[ 9.317190] do_one_initcall+0x48/0x200
[ 9.317195] kernel_init_freeable+0x221/0x284
[ 9.317200] ? rest_init+0xe0/0xe0
[ 9.317204] kernel_init+0x1a/0x130
[ 9.317205] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
[ 9.317208] </TASK>
[ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ]
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 5.10.154)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.78)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.0.8)
• linux linux kernel 6.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43d2748394c3feb86c0c771466f5847e274fc043 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c10c854113720cbfe75d4f51db79b700a629e73 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9edf20e5a1d805855e78f241cf221d741b50d482 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c50ec15725e005e9fb20bce69b6c23b135a4a9b7 Patch