CVE-2022-49989

xen/privcmd: fix error exit of privcmd_ioctl_dm_op()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Jun 18, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Jun 18, 2025

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

xen/privcmd: fix error exit of privcmd_ioctl_dm_op()

The error exit of privcmd_ioctl_dm_op() is calling unlock_pages() potentially with pages being NULL, leading to a NULL dereference.

Additionally lock_pages() doesn't check for pin_user_pages_fast() having been completely successful, resulting in potentially not locking all pages into memory. This could result in sporadic failures when using the related memory in user mode.

Fix all of that by calling unlock_pages() always with the real number of pinned pages, which will be zero in case pages being NULL, and by checking the number of pages pinned by pin_user_pages_fast() matching the expected number of pages.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • ab520be8cd5d56867fc95cfbc34b90880faf1f9d to before 6de50db104af0dc921f593fd95c55db86a52ceefAffected
  • ab520be8cd5d56867fc95cfbc34b90880faf1f9d to before c2b7bae7c90051fd6a679d5dee00400d67ebbf4aAffected
  • ab520be8cd5d56867fc95cfbc34b90880faf1f9d to before 45d47bd9b96e7874b98dbcc7602fe2826c5d62a6Affected
  • ab520be8cd5d56867fc95cfbc34b90880faf1f9d to before c5deb27895e017a0267de0a20d140ad5fcc55a54Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.11Affected
  • before 4.11Not affected
  • 5.10.140 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.64 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 5.19.6 through 5.19.*Not affected
  • 6.0 and laterNot affected

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