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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-49771" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-05-01T14:09:08.813Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:06:27.827Z" 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-2022-49771" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49771.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49771" title: "dm ioctl: fix misbehavior if list_versions races with module loading" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndm ioctl: fix misbehavior if list_versions races with module loading\n\n__list_versions will first estimate the required space using the\n\"dm_target_iterate(list_version_get_needed, &needed)\" call and then will\nfill the space using the \"dm_target_iterate(list_version_get_info,\n&iter_info)\" call. Each of these calls locks the targets using the\n\"down_read(&_lock)\" and \"up_read(&_lock)\" calls, however between the first\nand second \"dm_target_iterate\" there is no lock held and the target\nmodules can be loaded at this point, so the second \"dm_target_iterate\"\ncall may need more space than what was the first \"dm_target_iterate\"\nreturned.\n\nThe code tries to handle this overflow (see the beginning of\nlist_version_get_info), however this handling is incorrect.\n\nThe code sets \"param-\u003edata_size = param-\u003edata_start + needed\" and\n\"iter_info.end = (char *)vers+len\" - \"needed\" is the size returned by the\nfirst dm_target_iterate call; \"len\" is the size of the buffer allocated by\nuserspace.\n\n\"len\" may be greater than \"needed\"; in this case, the code will write up\nto \"len\" bytes into the buffer, however param-\u003edata_size is set to\n\"needed\", so it may write data past the param-\u003edata_size value. The ioctl\ninterface copies only up to param-\u003edata_size into userspace, thus part of\nthe result will be truncated.\n\nFix this bug by setting \"iter_info.end = (char *)vers + needed;\" - this\nguarantees that the second \"dm_target_iterate\" call will write only up to\nthe \"needed\" buffer and it will exit with \"DM_BUFFER_FULL_FLAG\" if it\noverflows the \"needed\" space - in this case, userspace will allocate a\nlarger buffer and retry.\n\nNote that there is also a bug in list_version_get_needed - we need to add\n\"strlen(tt-\u003ename) + 1\" to the needed size, not \"strlen(tt-\u003ename)\"." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0c8d4112df329bf3dfbf27693f918c3b08676538"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6a818db0d5aecf80d4ba9e10ac153f60adc629ca"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3a1c35d72dc0b34d1e746ed705790c0f630aa427"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b545c0e1e4094d4de2bdfe9a3823f9154b0c0005"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f59f5a269ca5e43c567aca7f1f52500a0186e9b7"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6ffce7a92ef5c68f7e5d6f4d722c2f96280c064b"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5398b8e275bf81a2517b327d216c0f37ac9ac5ae"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4fe1ec995483737f3d2a14c3fe1d8fe634972979"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"version":"4.9.334","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.9.*"},{"version":"4.14.300","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.267","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.225","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.156","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.80","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.0.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1","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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