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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-48762"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-06-20T11:13:39.855Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:52:11.000Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:45.230Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-48762"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-48762.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48762"
title: "arm64: extable: fix load_unaligned_zeropad() reg indices"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\narm64: extable: fix load_unaligned_zeropad() reg indices\n\nIn ex_handler_load_unaligned_zeropad() we erroneously extract the data and\naddr register indices from ex-\u003etype rather than ex-\u003edata. As ex-\u003etype will\ncontain EX_TYPE_LOAD_UNALIGNED_ZEROPAD (i.e. 4):\n * We'll always treat X0 as the address register, since EX_DATA_REG_ADDR is\n   extracted from bits [9:5]. Thus, we may attempt to dereference an\n   arbitrary address as X0 may hold an arbitrary value.\n * We'll always treat X4 as the data register, since EX_DATA_REG_DATA is\n   extracted from bits [4:0]. Thus we will corrupt X4 and cause arbitrary\n   behaviour within load_unaligned_zeropad() and its caller.\n\nFix this by extracting both values from ex-\u003edata as originally intended.\n\nOn an MTE-enabled QEMU image we are hitting the following crash:\n Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000\n Call trace:\n  fixup_exception+0xc4/0x108\n  __do_kernel_fault+0x3c/0x268\n  do_tag_check_fault+0x3c/0x104\n  do_mem_abort+0x44/0xf4\n  el1_abort+0x40/0x64\n  el1h_64_sync_handler+0x60/0xa0\n  el1h_64_sync+0x7c/0x80\n  link_path_walk+0x150/0x344\n  path_openat+0xa0/0x7dc\n  do_filp_open+0xb8/0x168\n  do_sys_openat2+0x88/0x17c\n  __arm64_sys_openat+0x74/0xa0\n  invoke_syscall+0x48/0x148\n  el0_svc_common+0xb8/0xf8\n  do_el0_svc+0x28/0x88\n  el0_svc+0x24/0x84\n  el0t_64_sync_handler+0x88/0xec\n  el0t_64_sync+0x1b4/0x1b8\n Code: f8695a69 71007d1f 540000e0 927df12a (f940014a)"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"753b32368705c396000f95f33c3b7018474e33ad","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"47fe7a1c5e3e011eeb4ab79f2d54a794fdd1c3eb"},{"version":"753b32368705c396000f95f33c3b7018474e33ad","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3758a6c74e08bdc15ccccd6872a6ad37d165239a"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"},{"version":"5.16.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.16.*"},{"version":"5.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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