CVE-2022-50159 Information

Jun 19, 2025 cve

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

of: check previous kernel’s ima-kexec-buffer against memory bounds

Presently ima_get_kexec_buffer() doesn’t check if the previous kernel’s ima-kexec-buffer lies outside the addressable memory range. This can result in a kernel panic if the new kernel is booted with ‘mem=X’ arg and the ima-kexec-buffer was allocated beyond that range by the previous kernel. The panic is usually of the form below:

$ sudo kexec –initrd initrd vmlinux –append=‘mem=16G’

BUG: Unable to handle kernel data access on read at 0xc000c01fff7f0000 Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000837974 Oops: Kernel access of bad area sig: 11 [1] NIP [c000000000837974] ima_restore_measurement_list+0x94/0x6c0 LR [c00000000083b55c] ima_load_kexec_buffer+0xac/0x160 Call Trace: [c00000000371fa80] [c00000000083b55c] ima_load_kexec_buffer+0xac/0x160 [c00000000371fb00] [c0000000020512c4] ima_init+0x80/0x108 [c00000000371fb70] [c0000000020514dc] init_ima+0x4c/0x120 [c00000000371fbf0] [c000000000012240] do_one_initcall+0x60/0x2c0 [c00000000371fcc0] [c000000002004ad0] kernel_init_freeable+0x344/0x3ec [c00000000371fda0] [c0000000000128a4] kernel_init+0x34/0x1b0 [c00000000371fe10] [c00000000000ce64] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64 Instruction dump: f92100b8 f92100c0 90e10090 910100a0 4182050c 282a0017 3bc00000 40810330 7c0802a6 fb610198 7c9b2378 f80101d0 2c090001 40820614 e9240010 ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Fix this issue by checking returned PFN range of previous kernel’s ima-kexec-buffer with page_is_ram() to ensure correct memory bounds.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b2263d6c86fca8f30e18231778393bfc287bb27 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/beb5bba5dd132650c073f815c685c60c3e5b783b https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cbf9c4b9617b6767886a913705ca14b7600c77db https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc3b8525f83ac6bbc885bb24bbb8a76f4622200e

CNNVD-202506-2447 (Published: 2025-06-18)

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