Vulnerability · Published Feb 26, 2025 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2022-49623powerpc/xive/spapr: correct bitmap allocation size

High 7.1

In plain English

A high-severity out-of-bounds read in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 21% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.1High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 79.4% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/xive/spapr: correct bitmap allocation size kasan detects access beyond the end of the xibm->bitmap allocation: BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in _find_first_zero_bit+0x40/0x140 Read of size 8 at addr c00000001d1d0118 by task swapper/0/1 CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.19.0-rc2-00001-g90df023b36dd #28 Call Trace: [c00000001d98f770] [c0000000012baab8] dump_stack_lvl+0xac/0x108 (unreliable) [c00000001d98f7b0] [c00000000068faac] print_report+0x37c/0x710 [c00000001d98f880] [c0000000006902c0] kasan_report+0x110/0x354 [c00000001d98f950] [c000000000692324] __asan_load8+0xa4/0xe0 [c00000001d98f970] [c0000000011c6ed0] _find_first_zero_bit+0x40/0x140 [c00000001d98f9b0] [c0000000000dbfbc] xive_spapr_get_ipi+0xcc/0x260 [c00000001d98fa70] [c0000000000d6d28] xive_setup_cpu_ipi+0x1e8/0x450 [c00000001d98fb30] [c000000004032a20] pSeries_smp_probe+0x5c/0x118 [c00000001d98fb60] [c000000004018b44] smp_prepare_cpus+0x944/0x9ac [c00000001d98fc90] [c000000004009f9c] kernel_init_freeable+0x2d4/0x640 [c00000001d98fd90] [c0000000000131e8] kernel_init+0x28/0x1d0 [c00000001d98fe10] [c00000000000cd54] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64 Allocated by task 0: kasan_save_stack+0x34/0x70 __kasan_kmalloc+0xb4/0xf0 __kmalloc+0x268/0x540 xive_spapr_init+0x4d0/0x77c pseries_init_irq+0x40/0x27c init_IRQ+0x44/0x84 start_kernel+0x2a4/0x538 start_here_common+0x1c/0x20 The buggy address belongs to the object at c00000001d1d0118 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-8 of size 8 The buggy address is located 0 bytes inside of 8-byte region [c00000001d1d0118, c00000001d1d0120) The buggy address belongs to the physical page: page:c00c000000074740 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xc00000001d1d0558 pfn:0x1d1d flags: 0x7ffff000000200(slab|node=0|zone=0|lastcpupid=0x7ffff) raw: 007ffff000000200 c00000001d0003c8 c00000001d0003c8 c00000001d010480 raw: c00000001d1d0558 0000000001e1000a 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected Memory state around the buggy address: c00000001d1d0000: fc 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc c00000001d1d0080: fc fc 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc >c00000001d1d0100: fc fc fc 02 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc ^ c00000001d1d0180: fc fc fc fc 04 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc c00000001d1d0200: fc fc fc fc fc 04 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc This happens because the allocation uses the wrong unit (bits) when it should pass (BITS_TO_LONGS(count) * sizeof(long)) or equivalent. With small numbers of bits, the allocated object can be smaller than sizeof(long), which results in invalid accesses. Use bitmap_zalloc() to allocate and initialize the irq bitmap, paired with bitmap_free() for consistency.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:9kernel5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-debug5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-debug-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-debug-devel5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-debug-devel-matched5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-debug-modules5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-debug-modules-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-debug-modules-extra5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-devel5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-devel-matched5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-modules5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-modules-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-modules-extra5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-abi-stablelists5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-cross-headers5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-debug5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-debug-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-debug-devel5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-debug-devel-matched5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-debug-modules5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-debug-modules-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-debug-modules-extra5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-debug-uki-virt5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-devel5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-devel-matched5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-doc5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-headers5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-modules5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-modules-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-modules-extra5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-debug5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-debug-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-debug-devel5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-debug-modules5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-debug-modules-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-debug-modules-extra5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-devel5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-modules5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-modules-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-modules-extra5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-debug5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-debug-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-debug-devel5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-debug-modules5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-debug-modules-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-devel5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-modules5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-modules-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-modules-extra5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-tools5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-tools-libs5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-tools-libs-devel5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-uki-virt5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-uki-virt-addons5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-zfcpdump5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-zfcpdump-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-zfcpdump-devel5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-zfcpdump-devel-matched5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-zfcpdump-modules5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-zfcpdump-modules-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-zfcpdump-modules-extra5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9libperf5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9perf5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9python3-perf5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9rtla5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9rv5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
Debian:12linux5.18.14-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49623
Debian:13linux5.18.14-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49623
Debian:14linux5.18.14-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49623
Rocky Linux:9kernel0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7RLSA-2025:20518
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux5.15.0-50.56UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws5.15.0-1021.25UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure5.15.0-1021.26UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde5.15.0-1024.30.1UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp5.15.0-1019.25UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gke5.15.0-1017.20UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeop5.15.0-1004.6UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm5.15.0-1015.17UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotg5.15.0-1017.22UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvm5.15.0-1019.23UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency5.15.0-50.56UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia5.15.0-1015.15UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle5.15.0-1019.24UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspi5.15.0-1016.18UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49623

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux eac1e731b59ee3b5f5e641a7765c7ed41ed26226 – before 10f2cd373e65bcd3be8f3cdc71c330c25763dfd8eac1e731b59ee3b5f5e641a7765c7ed41ed26226 – before 99d1c36bddd93919072b5a51a89297bbb5ad6a6feac1e731b59ee3b5f5e641a7765c7ed41ed26226 – before 19fc5bb93c6bbdce8292b4d7eed04e2fa118d2fe
Linux Linux 4.14

Weakness: CWE-125 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

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