{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2025-02-26T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: powerpc/xive/spapr: correct bitmap allocation size",
    "id" : "2348071",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2348071"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "5.5",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\npowerpc/xive/spapr: correct bitmap allocation size\nkasan detects access beyond the end of the xibm->bitmap allocation:\nBUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in _find_first_zero_bit+0x40/0x140\nRead of size 8 at addr c00000001d1d0118 by task swapper/0/1\nCPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.19.0-rc2-00001-g90df023b36dd #28\nCall Trace:\n[c00000001d98f770] [c0000000012baab8] dump_stack_lvl+0xac/0x108 (unreliable)\n[c00000001d98f7b0] [c00000000068faac] print_report+0x37c/0x710\n[c00000001d98f880] [c0000000006902c0] kasan_report+0x110/0x354\n[c00000001d98f950] [c000000000692324] __asan_load8+0xa4/0xe0\n[c00000001d98f970] [c0000000011c6ed0] _find_first_zero_bit+0x40/0x140\n[c00000001d98f9b0] [c0000000000dbfbc] xive_spapr_get_ipi+0xcc/0x260\n[c00000001d98fa70] [c0000000000d6d28] xive_setup_cpu_ipi+0x1e8/0x450\n[c00000001d98fb30] [c000000004032a20] pSeries_smp_probe+0x5c/0x118\n[c00000001d98fb60] [c000000004018b44] smp_prepare_cpus+0x944/0x9ac\n[c00000001d98fc90] [c000000004009f9c] kernel_init_freeable+0x2d4/0x640\n[c00000001d98fd90] [c0000000000131e8] kernel_init+0x28/0x1d0\n[c00000001d98fe10] [c00000000000cd54] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64\nAllocated by task 0:\nkasan_save_stack+0x34/0x70\n__kasan_kmalloc+0xb4/0xf0\n__kmalloc+0x268/0x540\nxive_spapr_init+0x4d0/0x77c\npseries_init_irq+0x40/0x27c\ninit_IRQ+0x44/0x84\nstart_kernel+0x2a4/0x538\nstart_here_common+0x1c/0x20\nThe buggy address belongs to the object at c00000001d1d0118\nwhich belongs to the cache kmalloc-8 of size 8\nThe buggy address is located 0 bytes inside of\n8-byte region [c00000001d1d0118, c00000001d1d0120)\nThe buggy address belongs to the physical page:\npage:c00c000000074740 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xc00000001d1d0558 pfn:0x1d1d\nflags: 0x7ffff000000200(slab|node=0|zone=0|lastcpupid=0x7ffff)\nraw: 007ffff000000200 c00000001d0003c8 c00000001d0003c8 c00000001d010480\nraw: c00000001d1d0558 0000000001e1000a 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000\npage dumped because: kasan: bad access detected\nMemory state around the buggy address:\nc00000001d1d0000: fc 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc\nc00000001d1d0080: fc fc 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc\n>c00000001d1d0100: fc fc fc 02 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc\n^\nc00000001d1d0180: fc fc fc fc 04 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc\nc00000001d1d0200: fc fc fc fc fc 04 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc\nThis happens because the allocation uses the wrong unit (bits) when it\nshould pass (BITS_TO_LONGS(count) * sizeof(long)) or equivalent. With small\nnumbers of bits, the allocated object can be smaller than sizeof(long),\nwhich results in invalid accesses.\nUse bitmap_zalloc() to allocate and initialize the irq bitmap, paired with\nbitmap_free() for consistency." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2025-11-11T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2025:20518",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2025-11-11T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2025:20518",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49623\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49623\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022615-CVE-2022-49623-53ab@gregkh/T" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2022-49623",
  "csaw" : false
}