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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-49666" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-02-26T02:24:01.148Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:22:42.733Z" 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-2022-49666" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49666.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49666" title: "powerpc/memhotplug: Add add_pages override for PPC" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npowerpc/memhotplug: Add add_pages override for PPC\n\nWith commit ffa0b64e3be5 (\"powerpc: Fix virt_addr_valid() for 64-bit Book3E & 32-bit\")\nthe kernel now validate the addr against high_memory value. This results\nin the below BUG_ON with dax pfns.\n\n[ 635.798741][T26531] kernel BUG at mm/page_alloc.c:5521!\n1:mon\u003e e\ncpu 0x1: Vector: 700 (Program Check) at [c000000007287630]\n pc: c00000000055ed48: free_pages.part.0+0x48/0x110\n lr: c00000000053ca70: tlb_finish_mmu+0x80/0xd0\n sp: c0000000072878d0\n msr: 800000000282b033\n current = 0xc00000000afabe00\n paca = 0xc00000037ffff300 irqmask: 0x03 irq_happened: 0x05\n pid = 26531, comm = 50-landscape-sy\nkernel BUG at :5521!\nLinux version 5.19.0-rc3-14659-g4ec05be7c2e1 (kvaneesh@ltc-boston8) (gcc (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1) 9.4.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.34) #625 SMP Thu Jun 23 00:35:43 CDT 2022\n1:mon\u003e t\n[link register ] c00000000053ca70 tlb_finish_mmu+0x80/0xd0\n[c0000000072878d0] c00000000053ca54 tlb_finish_mmu+0x64/0xd0 (unreliable)\n[c000000007287900] c000000000539424 exit_mmap+0xe4/0x2a0\n[c0000000072879e0] c00000000019fc1c mmput+0xcc/0x210\n[c000000007287a20] c000000000629230 begin_new_exec+0x5e0/0xf40\n[c000000007287ae0] c00000000070b3cc load_elf_binary+0x3ac/0x1e00\n[c000000007287c10] c000000000627af0 bprm_execve+0x3b0/0xaf0\n[c000000007287cd0] c000000000628414 do_execveat_common.isra.0+0x1e4/0x310\n[c000000007287d80] c00000000062858c sys_execve+0x4c/0x60\n[c000000007287db0] c00000000002c1b0 system_call_exception+0x160/0x2c0\n[c000000007287e10] c00000000000c53c system_call_common+0xec/0x250\n\nThe fix is to make sure we update high_memory on memory hotplug.\nThis is similar to what x86 does in commit 3072e413e305 (\"mm/memory_hotplug: introduce add_pages\")" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"fddb88bd266f4513abab7c36bca98935c9148a98","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"89296ac435e2cf8a5101f7fab8f0c7b754b92052"},{"version":"ffa0b64e3be58519ae472ea29a1a1ad681e32f48","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"84d146fd35a01b08e9515041de60f0f915a417d5"},{"version":"ffa0b64e3be58519ae472ea29a1a1ad681e32f48","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ac790d09885d36143076e7e02825c541e8eee899"},{"version":"deab81144d5a043f42804207fb76cfbd8a806978","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"d36febbcd537fcc50284e8b89609632d0146529f","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"a3727c25eacd7e437c4f560957fa3a376fe93e6b","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"cbc065efcba000ad8f615f506ebe61b6d3c5145b","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.15.34","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.53"},{"version":"5.4.190","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"},{"version":"5.10.111","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.11"},{"version":"5.16.20","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.17"},{"version":"5.17.3","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.18"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.18"},{"version":"5.15.53","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.18.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.18.*"},{"version":"5.19","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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