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GHSA-V9RQ-J9P7-C4V2

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-06-18 12:30 – Updated: 2025-11-14 18:31

Details

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

mm/hugetlb: avoid corrupting page->mapping in hugetlb_mcopy_atomic_pte

In MCOPY_ATOMIC_CONTINUE case with a non-shared VMA, pages in the page cache are installed in the ptes. But hugepage_add_new_anon_rmap is called for them mistakenly because they're not vm_shared. This will corrupt the page->mapping used by page cache code.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2022-49991 (GCVE-0-2022-49991)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-18 11:00 – Updated: 2026-08-05 08:57

Title

mm/hugetlb: avoid corrupting page->mapping in hugetlb_mcopy_atomic_pte

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/hugetlb: avoid corrupting page->mapping in hugetlb_mcopy_atomic_pte In MCOPY_ATOMIC_CONTINUE case with a non-shared VMA, pages in the page cache are installed in the ptes. But hugepage_add_new_anon_rmap is called for them mistakenly because they're not vm_shared. This will corrupt the page->mapping used by page cache code.

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da60ddd80d09f8371…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ada1b3e58db255a1…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab74ef708dc51df7c…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: f619147104c8ea71e120e4936d2b68ec11a1e527 , < da60ddd80d09f8371fbba1a238a4b318d13ba698 (git) Affected: f619147104c8ea71e120e4936d2b68ec11a1e527 , < 3ada1b3e58db255a14ec73a59d7913e84dc5a8a4 (git) Affected: f619147104c8ea71e120e4936d2b68ec11a1e527 , < ab74ef708dc51df7cf2b8a890b9c6990fac5c0c6 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.13 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.13 (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.65 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.19.6 , ≤ 5.19.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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