CVE-2022-50232

CVE-2022-50232 affects the Linux kernel on arm64 with FEAT_EPAN: UXN was not set on swapper PTEs, causing idmap_kpti_install_ng_mappings to panic when accessing __idmap_kpti_flag. Upstream fix sets UXN on swapper page tables; originated from a boot-flow refactor (commit c3cee924bd85) and a simple...

CVE-2022-50230

In the Linux kernel (arm64), the idmap access problem occurred on systems implementing FEAT_EPAN where UXN was not set on swapper page tables, causing idmap_kpti_install_ng_mappings to panic when accessing __idmap_kpti_flag. The issue was fixed upstream by applying UXN to the swapper PTEs as part...

CVE-2022-50230: Undefined Security Weakness

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: arm64: set UXN on swapper page tables This issue was fixed upstream by accident in c3cee924bd85 "arm64: head: cover entire kernel image in initial ID map" as part of a large refactoring of the arm64 boot flow. This simple fix is...