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CVE-2022-49554

MEDIUM
4.7

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: zsmalloc: fix races between asynchronous zspage free and page migration The asynchronous zspage free worker tries to lock a zspage's entire page list without defending against page migration. Since pages which haven't yet been locked can concurrently migrate off the zspage page list while lock_zspage() churns away, lock_zspage() can suffer from a few different lethal races. It can lock a page which no longer belongs to the zspage and unsafely dereference page_private(), it can unsafely dereference a torn pointer to the next page (since there's a data race), and it can observe a spurious NULL pointer to the next page and thus not lock all of the zspage's pages (since a single page migration will reconstruct the entire page list, and create_page_chain() unconditionally zeroes out each list pointer in the process). Fix the races by using migrate_read_lock() in lock_zspage() to synchronize with page migration.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score4.7
SeverityMEDIUM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack VectorLOCAL
ComplexityHIGH
Privileges RequiredLOW
User InteractionNONE
Published2/26/2025
Last Modified10/22/2025
Sourcenvd
Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

linux:linux_kernel

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-362

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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