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High severity Unreviewed Published Mar 12, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Mar 12, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

powerpc/xive/spapr: correct bitmap allocation size

kasan detects access beyond the end of the xibm->bitmap allocation:

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in _find_first_zero_bit+0x40/0x140
Read of size 8 at addr c00000001d1d0118 by task swapper/0/1

CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.19.0-rc2-00001-g90df023b36dd #28
Call Trace:
[c00000001d98f770] [c0000000012baab8] dump_stack_lvl+0xac/0x108 (unreliable)
[c00000001d98f7b0] [c00000000068faac] print_report+0x37c/0x710
[c00000001d98f880] [c0000000006902c0] kasan_report+0x110/0x354
[c00000001d98f950] [c000000000692324] __asan_load8+0xa4/0xe0
[c00000001d98f970] [c0000000011c6ed0] _find_first_zero_bit+0x40/0x140
[c00000001d98f9b0] [c0000000000dbfbc] xive_spapr_get_ipi+0xcc/0x260
[c00000001d98fa70] [c0000000000d6d28] xive_setup_cpu_ipi+0x1e8/0x450
[c00000001d98fb30] [c000000004032a20] pSeries_smp_probe+0x5c/0x118
[c00000001d98fb60] [c000000004018b44] smp_prepare_cpus+0x944/0x9ac
[c00000001d98fc90] [c000000004009f9c] kernel_init_freeable+0x2d4/0x640
[c00000001d98fd90] [c0000000000131e8] kernel_init+0x28/0x1d0
[c00000001d98fe10] [c00000000000cd54] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64

Allocated by task 0:
kasan_save_stack+0x34/0x70
__kasan_kmalloc+0xb4/0xf0
__kmalloc+0x268/0x540
xive_spapr_init+0x4d0/0x77c
pseries_init_irq+0x40/0x27c
init_IRQ+0x44/0x84
start_kernel+0x2a4/0x538
start_here_common+0x1c/0x20

The buggy address belongs to the object at c00000001d1d0118
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-8 of size 8
The buggy address is located 0 bytes inside of
8-byte region [c00000001d1d0118, c00000001d1d0120)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:c00c000000074740 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xc00000001d1d0558 pfn:0x1d1d
flags: 0x7ffff000000200(slab|node=0|zone=0|lastcpupid=0x7ffff)
raw: 007ffff000000200 c00000001d0003c8 c00000001d0003c8 c00000001d010480
raw: c00000001d1d0558 0000000001e1000a 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

Memory state around the buggy address:
c00000001d1d0000: fc 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
c00000001d1d0080: fc fc 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc

c00000001d1d0100: fc fc fc 02 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
^
c00000001d1d0180: fc fc fc fc 04 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
c00000001d1d0200: fc fc fc fc fc 04 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc

This happens because the allocation uses the wrong unit (bits) when it
should pass (BITS_TO_LONGS(count) * sizeof(long)) or equivalent. With small
numbers of bits, the allocated object can be smaller than sizeof(long),
which results in invalid accesses.

Use bitmap_zalloc() to allocate and initialize the irq bitmap, paired with
bitmap_free() for consistency.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 26, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 12, 2025
Last updated Mar 12, 2025

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-49623

GHSA ID

GHSA-7cgw-456x-7466

Source code

No known source code

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