VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2022-49991

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.26%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2025-06-18
Last modified2026-08-04
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/hugetlb: avoid corrupting page->mapping in hugetlb_mcopy_atomic_pte In MCOPY_ATOMIC_CONTINUE case with a non-shared VMA, pages in the page cache are installed in the ptes. But hugepage_add_new_anon_rmap is called for them mistakenly because they're not vm_shared. This will corrupt the page->mapping used by page cache code.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-noinfo

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