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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-48862"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-07-16T12:25:25.833Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T18:48:35.691Z"
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-2022-48862"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-48862.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48862"
title: "vhost: fix hung thread due to erroneous iotlb entries"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvhost: fix hung thread due to erroneous iotlb entries\n\nIn vhost_iotlb_add_range_ctx(), range size can overflow to 0 when\nstart is 0 and last is ULONG_MAX. One instance where it can happen\nis when userspace sends an IOTLB message with iova=size=uaddr=0\n(vhost_process_iotlb_msg). So, an entry with size = 0, start = 0,\nlast = ULONG_MAX ends up in the iotlb. Next time a packet is sent,\niotlb_access_ok() loops indefinitely due to that erroneous entry.\n\n\tCall Trace:\n\t \u003cTASK\u003e\n\t iotlb_access_ok+0x21b/0x3e0 drivers/vhost/vhost.c:1340\n\t vq_meta_prefetch+0xbc/0x280 drivers/vhost/vhost.c:1366\n\t vhost_transport_do_send_pkt+0xe0/0xfd0 drivers/vhost/vsock.c:104\n\t vhost_worker+0x23d/0x3d0 drivers/vhost/vhost.c:372\n\t kthread+0x2e9/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:377\n\t ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295\n\t \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nReported by syzbot at:\n\thttps://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=0abd373e2e50d704db87\n\nTo fix this, do two things:\n\n1. Return -EINVAL in vhost_chr_write_iter() when userspace asks to map\n   a range with size 0.\n2. Fix vhost_iotlb_add_range_ctx() to handle the range [0, ULONG_MAX]\n   by splitting it into two entries."
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