linux: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: zsmalloc: fix races between asynchronous zspage...
CVE-2022-49554 is fixed in linux on 1 platform, first by DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49554, released February 26, 2025. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Routine.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: zsmalloc: fix races between asynchronous zspage free and page migration The asynchronous zspage free worker tries to lock a zspage's entire page list without defending against page migration. Since pages which haven't yet been locked can concurrently migrate off the zspage page list while lock_zspage() churns away, lock_zspage() can suffer from a few different lethal races. It can lock a page which no longer belongs to the zspage and unsafely dereference page_private(), it can unsafely dereference a torn pointer to the next page (since there's a data race), and it can observe a spurious NULL pointer to the next page and thus not lock all of the zspage's pages (since a single page migration will reconstruct the entire page list, and create_page_chain() unconditionally zeroes out each list pointer in the process). Fix the races by using migrate_read_lock() in lock_zspage() to synchronize with page migration.
Where it's fixed
| Product | Fixed in | Fix | Released |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | |||
| linux · Debian 12.15 (bookworm) | 5.18.2-1 | DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49554 | Feb 26, 2025 |
| linux · Debian 13.5 (trixie) | 5.18.2-1 | DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49554 | Feb 26, 2025 |
| linux · Debian 14 | 5.18.2-1 | DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49554 | Feb 26, 2025 |
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