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CVE-2022-50225

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: riscv:uprobe fix SR_SPIE set/clear handling In riscv the process of uprobe going to clear spie before exec the origin insn,and set spie after that.But When access the page which origin…

MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 0.16%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.16%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: riscv:uprobe fix SR_SPIE set/clear handling In riscv the process of uprobe going to clear spie before exec the origin insn,and set spie after that.But When access the page which origin insn has been placed a page fault may happen and irq was disabled in arch_uprobe_pre_xol function,It cause a WARN as follows. There is no need to clear/set spie in arch_uprobe_pre/post/abort_xol. We can just remove it. [ 31.684157] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1488 [ 31.684677] in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 76, name: work [ 31.684929] preempt_count: 0, expected: 0 [ 31.685969] CPU: 2 PID: 76 Comm: work Tainted: G [ 31.686542] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT) [ 31.686797] Call Trace: [ 31.687053] [<ffffffff80006442>] dump_backtrace+0x30/0x38 [ 31.687699] [<ffffffff80812118>] show_stack+0x40/0x4c [ 31.688141] [<ffffffff8081817a>] dump_stack_lvl+0x44/0x5c [ 31.688396] [<ffffffff808181aa>] dump_stack+0x18/0x20 [ 31.688653] [<ffffffff8003e454>] __might_resched+0x114/0x122 [ 31.688948] [<ffffffff8003e4b2>] __might_sleep+0x50/0x7a [ 31.689435] [<ffffffff80822676>] down_read+0x30/0x130 [ 31.689728] [<ffffffff8000b650>] do_page_fault+0x166/x446 [ 31.689997] [<ffffffff80003c0c>] ret_from_exception+0x0/0xc

CVSS 3.1
5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.16% probability · 6th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-667
Affected
linux/linux kernel
Source
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.