{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2022-49401", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2025-02-26T02:08:31.565Z", "datePublished": "2025-02-26T02:12:28.603Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-05-11T18:59:02.455Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-05-11T18:59:02.455Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/page_owner: use strscpy() instead of strlcpy()\n\ncurrent->comm[] is not a string (no guarantee for a zero byte in it).\n\nstrlcpy(s1, s2, l) is calling strlen(s2), potentially\ncausing out-of-bound access, as reported by syzbot:\n\ndetected buffer overflow in __fortify_strlen\n------------[ cut here ]------------\nkernel BUG at lib/string_helpers.c:980!\ninvalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN\nCPU: 0 PID: 4087 Comm: dhcpcd-run-hooks Not tainted 5.18.0-rc3-syzkaller-01537-g20b87e7c29df #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011\nRIP: 0010:fortify_panic+0x18/0x1a lib/string_helpers.c:980\nCode: 8c e8 c5 ba e1 fa e9 23 0f bf fa e8 0b 5d 8c f8 eb db 55 48 89 fd e8 e0 49 40 f8 48 89 ee 48 c7 c7 80 f5 26 8a e8 99 09 f1 ff <0f> 0b e8 ca 49 40 f8 48 8b 54 24 18 4c 89 f1 48 c7 c7 00 00 27 8a\nRSP: 0018:ffffc900000074a8 EFLAGS: 00010286\n\nRAX: 000000000000002c RBX: ffff88801226b728 RCX: 0000000000000000\nRDX: ffff8880198e0000 RSI: ffffffff81600458 RDI: fffff52000000e87\nRBP: ffffffff89da2aa0 R08: 000000000000002c R09: 0000000000000000\nR10: ffffffff815fae2e R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88801226b700\nR13: ffff8880198e0830 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000\nFS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b9c00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 00007f5876ad6ff8 CR3: 000000001a48c000 CR4: 00000000003506f0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000600\nCall Trace:\n \n __fortify_strlen include/linux/fortify-string.h:128 [inline]\n strlcpy include/linux/fortify-string.h:143 [inline]\n __set_page_owner_handle+0x2b1/0x3e0 mm/page_owner.c:171\n __set_page_owner+0x3e/0x50 mm/page_owner.c:190\n prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2441 [inline]\n get_page_from_freelist+0xba2/0x3e00 mm/page_alloc.c:4182\n __alloc_pages+0x1b2/0x500 mm/page_alloc.c:5408\n alloc_pages+0x1aa/0x310 mm/mempolicy.c:2272\n alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:1799 [inline]\n allocate_slab+0x26c/0x3c0 mm/slub.c:1944\n new_slab mm/slub.c:2004 [inline]\n ___slab_alloc+0x8df/0xf20 mm/slub.c:3005\n __slab_alloc.constprop.0+0x4d/0xa0 mm/slub.c:3092\n slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3183 [inline]\n slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3225 [inline]\n __kmem_cache_alloc_lru mm/slub.c:3232 [inline]\n kmem_cache_alloc+0x360/0x3b0 mm/slub.c:3242\n dst_alloc+0x146/0x1f0 net/core/dst.c:92" } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "mm/page_owner.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "865ed6a3278654ce4a55eb74c5283eeb82ad4699", "lessThan": "5cd9900a1ac8b0a4ff3cd97d4d77b7711be435bf", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "865ed6a3278654ce4a55eb74c5283eeb82ad4699", "lessThan": "cd8c1fd8cdd14158f2d8bea2d1bfe8015dccfa3a", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" } ] }, { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "mm/page_owner.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "5.18", "status": "affected" }, { "version": "0", "lessThan": "5.18", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "5.18.3", "lessThanOrEqual": "5.18.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "5.19", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix" } ] } ], "cpeApplicability": [ { "nodes": [ { "operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [ { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.18", "versionEndExcluding": "5.18.3" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.18", "versionEndExcluding": "5.19" } ] } ] } ], "references": [ { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5cd9900a1ac8b0a4ff3cd97d4d77b7711be435bf" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd8c1fd8cdd14158f2d8bea2d1bfe8015dccfa3a" } ], "title": "mm/page_owner: use strscpy() instead of strlcpy()", "x_generator": { "engine": "bippy-1.2.0" } } } }