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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-50425"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-01T11:42:04.776Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:19:14.875Z"
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-2022-50425"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50425.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50425"
title: "x86/fpu: Fix copy_xstate_to_uabi() to copy init states correctly"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nx86/fpu: Fix copy_xstate_to_uabi() to copy init states correctly\n\nWhen an extended state component is not present in fpstate, but in init\nstate, the function copies from init_fpstate via copy_feature().\n\nBut, dynamic states are not present in init_fpstate because of all-zeros\ninit states. Then retrieving them from init_fpstate will explode like this:\n\n BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000\n ...\n RIP: 0010:memcpy_erms+0x6/0x10\n  ? __copy_xstate_to_uabi_buf+0x381/0x870\n  fpu_copy_guest_fpstate_to_uabi+0x28/0x80\n  kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl+0x14c/0x1460 [kvm]\n  ? __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x13/0x20\n  ? vmx_vcpu_put+0x2e/0x260 [kvm_intel]\n  kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0xea/0x6b0 [kvm]\n  ? kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0xea/0x6b0 [kvm]\n  ? __fget_light+0xd4/0x130\n  __x64_sys_ioctl+0xe3/0x910\n  ? debug_smp_processor_id+0x17/0x20\n  ? fpregs_assert_state_consistent+0x27/0x50\n  do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90\n  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n\nAdjust the 'mask' to zero out the userspace buffer for the features that\nare not available both from fpstate and from init_fpstate.\n\nThe dynamic features depend on the compacted XSAVE format. Ensure it is\nenabled before reading XCOMP_BV in init_fpstate."
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