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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49894"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-05-01T14:10:37.109Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:08:48.017Z"
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-2022-49894"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49894.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49894"
title: "cxl/region: Fix region HPA ordering validation"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncxl/region: Fix region HPA ordering validation\n\nSome regions may not have any address space allocated. Skip them when\nvalidating HPA order otherwise a crash like the following may result:\n\n devm_cxl_add_region: cxl_acpi cxl_acpi.0: decoder3.4: created region9\n BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000\n [..]\n RIP: 0010:store_targetN+0x655/0x1740 [cxl_core]\n [..]\n Call Trace:\n  \u003cTASK\u003e\n  kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x144/0x200\n  vfs_write+0x24a/0x4d0\n  ksys_write+0x69/0xf0\n  do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x90\n\nstore_targetN+0x655/0x1740:\nalloc_region_ref at drivers/cxl/core/region.c:676\n(inlined by) cxl_port_attach_region at drivers/cxl/core/region.c:850\n(inlined by) cxl_region_attach at drivers/cxl/core/region.c:1290\n(inlined by) attach_target at drivers/cxl/core/region.c:1410\n(inlined by) store_targetN at drivers/cxl/core/region.c:1453"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"384e624bb211b406db40edc900bb51af8bb267d0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"12316b9f7c18138ae656050cfd716728e27b7e2f"},{"version":"384e624bb211b406db40edc900bb51af8bb267d0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a90accb358ae33ea982a35595573f7a045993f8b"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.0"},{"version":"6.0.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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