CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-50159
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-06-18
- 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
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 5.15.61)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.18.18)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.19 < 5.19.2)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b2263d6c86fca8f30e18231778393bfc287bb27 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/beb5bba5dd132650c073f815c685c60c3e5b783b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cbf9c4b9617b6767886a913705ca14b7600c77db Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc3b8525f83ac6bbc885bb24bbb8a76f4622200e Patch