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CVE-2022-50230

arm64: set UXN on swapper page tables PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: arm64: set UXN on swapper page tables [ This issue was fixed upstream by accident in c3cee924bd85 ("arm64: head: cover entire kernel image in initial ID map") as part of a large refactoring of the arm64 boot flow. This simple fix is therefore preferred for -stable backporting ] On a system that implements FEAT_EPAN, read/write access to the idmap is denied because UXN is not set on the swapper PTEs. As a result, idmap_kpti_install_ng_mappings panics the kernel when accessing __idmap_kpti_flag. Fix it by setting UXN on these PTEs.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 18107f8a2df6bf1c6cac8d0713f757f866d5af51 before 9283e708a9b8529e7aafac9ab5c5c79a9fab8846; affected 18107f8a2df6bf1c6cac8d0713f757f866d5af51 before c3cee924bd855184d15bc4aa6088dcf8e2c1394c
Linux / Linuxaffected 5.13; unaffected 0 before 5.13; unaffected 5.19.1 through 5.19.*; unaffected 6.0 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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