CVE-2022-49894

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49894
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49894.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-49894
Downstream
Published
2025-05-01T14:10:37Z
Modified
2026-08-12T03:51:21Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
cxl/region: Fix region HPA ordering validation
Details

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

cxl/region: Fix region HPA ordering validation

Some regions may not have any address space allocated. Skip them when validating HPA order otherwise a crash like the following may result:

devm_cxl_add_region: cxl_acpi cxl_acpi.0: decoder3.4: created region9 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 [..] RIP: 0010:store_targetN+0x655/0x1740 [cxl_core] [..] Call Trace: kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x144/0x200 vfs_write+0x24a/0x4d0 ksys_write+0x69/0xf0 do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x90

store_targetN+0x655/0x1740: alloc_region_ref at drivers/cxl/core/region.c:676 (inlined by) cxl_port_attach_region at drivers/cxl/core/region.c:850 (inlined by) cxl_region_attach at drivers/cxl/core/region.c:1290 (inlined by) attach_target at drivers/cxl/core/region.c:1410 (inlined by) store_targetN at drivers/cxl/core/region.c:1453

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/49xxx/CVE-2022-49894.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
384e624bb211b406db40edc900bb51af8bb267d0
Fixed
12316b9f7c18138ae656050cfd716728e27b7e2f
Fixed
a90accb358ae33ea982a35595573f7a045993f8b

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49894.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.0.0
Fixed
6.0.8

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49894.json"