{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2025-02-26T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: powerpc/memhotplug: Add add_pages override for PPC",
    "id" : "2348303",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2348303"
  },
  "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/memhotplug: Add add_pages override for PPC\nWith commit ffa0b64e3be5 (\"powerpc: Fix virt_addr_valid() for 64-bit Book3E & 32-bit\")\nthe kernel now validate the addr against high_memory value. This results\nin the below BUG_ON with dax pfns.\n[  635.798741][T26531] kernel BUG at mm/page_alloc.c:5521!\n1:mon> e\ncpu 0x1: Vector: 700 (Program Check) at [c000000007287630]\npc: c00000000055ed48: free_pages.part.0+0x48/0x110\nlr: c00000000053ca70: tlb_finish_mmu+0x80/0xd0\nsp: c0000000072878d0\nmsr: 800000000282b033\ncurrent = 0xc00000000afabe00\npaca    = 0xc00000037ffff300   irqmask: 0x03   irq_happened: 0x05\npid   = 26531, comm = 50-landscape-sy\nkernel BUG at :5521!\nLinux version 5.19.0-rc3-14659-g4ec05be7c2e1 (kvaneesh@ltc-boston8) (gcc (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1) 9.4.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.34) #625 SMP Thu Jun 23 00:35:43 CDT 2022\n1:mon> t\n[link register   ] c00000000053ca70 tlb_finish_mmu+0x80/0xd0\n[c0000000072878d0] c00000000053ca54 tlb_finish_mmu+0x64/0xd0 (unreliable)\n[c000000007287900] c000000000539424 exit_mmap+0xe4/0x2a0\n[c0000000072879e0] c00000000019fc1c mmput+0xcc/0x210\n[c000000007287a20] c000000000629230 begin_new_exec+0x5e0/0xf40\n[c000000007287ae0] c00000000070b3cc load_elf_binary+0x3ac/0x1e00\n[c000000007287c10] c000000000627af0 bprm_execve+0x3b0/0xaf0\n[c000000007287cd0] c000000000628414 do_execveat_common.isra.0+0x1e4/0x310\n[c000000007287d80] c00000000062858c sys_execve+0x4c/0x60\n[c000000007287db0] c00000000002c1b0 system_call_exception+0x160/0x2c0\n[c000000007287e10] c00000000000c53c system_call_common+0xec/0x250\nThe fix is to make sure we update high_memory on memory hotplug.\nThis is similar to what x86 does in commit 3072e413e305 (\"mm/memory_hotplug: introduce add_pages\")" ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2023-05-09T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2023:2458",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2023-05-09T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2023:2458",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2"
  } ],
  "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" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "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-2022-49666\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49666\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022623-CVE-2022-49666-98ab@gregkh/T" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2022-49666",
  "csaw" : false
}