CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-50630
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-12-08
- Last modified
- 2026-10-15
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm: hugetlb: fix UAF in hugetlb_handle_userfault
The vma_lock and hugetlb_fault_mutex are dropped before handling userfault
and reacquire them again after handle_userfault(), but reacquire the
vma_lock could lead to UAF[1,2] due to the following race,
hugetlb_fault
hugetlb_no_page
/*unlock vma_lock */
hugetlb_handle_userfault
handle_userfault
/* unlock mm->mmap_lock*/
vm_mmap_pgoff
do_mmap
mmap_region
munmap_vma_range
/* clean old vma */
/* lock vma_lock again <--- UAF */
/* unlock vma_lock */
Since the vma_lock will unlock immediately after
hugetlb_handle_userfault(), let's drop the unneeded lock and unlock in
hugetlb_handle_userfault() to fix the issue.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/[email protected]/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/[email protected]/
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0db2efb3bff879566f05341d94c3de00ac95c4cc git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/45c33966759ea1b4040c08dacda99ef623c0ca29 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/78504bcedb2f1bbfb353b4d233c24d641c4dda33 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/958f32ce832ba781ac20e11bb2d12a9352ea28fc git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd691973f67b2800a97db723b1ff6f07fdcf7f5a git.kernel.org