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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-49067" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-02-26T01:54:34.862Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T18:52:23.386Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:49.724Z" 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-2022-49067" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49067.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49067" title: "powerpc: Fix virt_addr_valid() for 64-bit Book3E & 32-bit" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npowerpc: Fix virt_addr_valid() for 64-bit Book3E & 32-bit\n\nmpe: On 64-bit Book3E vmalloc space starts at 0x8000000000000000.\n\nBecause of the way __pa() works we have:\n __pa(0x8000000000000000) == 0, and therefore\n virt_to_pfn(0x8000000000000000) == 0, and therefore\n virt_addr_valid(0x8000000000000000) == true\n\nWhich is wrong, virt_addr_valid() should be false for vmalloc space.\nIn fact all vmalloc addresses that alias with a valid PFN will return\ntrue from virt_addr_valid(). That can cause bugs with hardened usercopy\nas described below by Kefeng Wang:\n\n When running ethtool eth0 on 64-bit Book3E, a BUG occurred:\n\n usercopy: Kernel memory exposure attempt detected from SLUB object not in SLUB page?! (offset 0, size 1048)!\n kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:99\n ...\n usercopy_abort+0x64/0xa0 (unreliable)\n __check_heap_object+0x168/0x190\n __check_object_size+0x1a0/0x200\n dev_ethtool+0x2494/0x2b20\n dev_ioctl+0x5d0/0x770\n sock_do_ioctl+0xf0/0x1d0\n sock_ioctl+0x3ec/0x5a0\n __se_sys_ioctl+0xf0/0x160\n system_call_exception+0xfc/0x1f0\n system_call_common+0xf8/0x200\n\n The code shows below,\n\n data = vzalloc(array_size(gstrings.len, ETH_GSTRING_LEN));\n copy_to_user(useraddr, data, gstrings.len * ETH_GSTRING_LEN))\n\n The data is alloced by vmalloc(), virt_addr_valid(ptr) will return true\n on 64-bit Book3E, which leads to the panic.\n\n As commit 4dd7554a6456 (\"powerpc/64: Add VIRTUAL_BUG_ON checks for __va\n and __pa addresses\") does, make sure the virt addr above PAGE_OFFSET in\n the virt_addr_valid() for 64-bit, also add upper limit check to make\n sure the virt is below high_memory.\n\n Meanwhile, for 32-bit PAGE_OFFSET is the virtual address of the start\n of lowmem, high_memory is the upper low virtual address, the check is\n suitable for 32-bit, this will fix the issue mentioned in commit\n 602946ec2f90 (\"powerpc: Set max_mapnr correctly\") too.\n\nOn 32-bit there is a similar problem with high memory, that was fixed in\ncommit 602946ec2f90 (\"powerpc: Set max_mapnr correctly\"), but that\ncommit breaks highmem and needs to be reverted.\n\nWe can't easily fix __pa(), we have code that relies on its current\nbehaviour. So for now add extra checks to virt_addr_valid().\n\nFor 64-bit Book3S the extra checks are not necessary, the combination of\nvirt_to_pfn() and pfn_valid() should yield the correct result, but they\nare harmless.\n\n[mpe: Add additional change log detail]" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ffda09a9941c18d9f08d1176d55588d505f62912","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"deab81144d5a043f42804207fb76cfbd8a806978"},{"version":"ffda09a9941c18d9f08d1176d55588d505f62912","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d36febbcd537fcc50284e8b89609632d0146529f"},{"version":"ffda09a9941c18d9f08d1176d55588d505f62912","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fddb88bd266f4513abab7c36bca98935c9148a98"},{"version":"ffda09a9941c18d9f08d1176d55588d505f62912","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a3727c25eacd7e437c4f560957fa3a376fe93e6b"},{"version":"ffda09a9941c18d9f08d1176d55588d505f62912","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cbc065efcba000ad8f615f506ebe61b6d3c5145b"},{"version":"ffda09a9941c18d9f08d1176d55588d505f62912","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ffa0b64e3be58519ae472ea29a1a1ad681e32f48"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.4"},{"version":"5.4.190","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.34","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.16.20","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.16.*"},{"version":"5.17.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.17.*"},{"version":"5.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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