{"cve":"CVE-2022-49623","nvd":{"published":"2025-02-26T07:01:37.663","modified":"2026-06-17T05:18:39.540","status":"Modified","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npowerpc/xive/spapr: correct bitmap allocation size\n\nkasan detects access beyond the end of the xibm->bitmap allocation:\n\nBUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in _find_first_zero_bit+0x40/0x140\nRead of size 8 at addr c00000001d1d0118 by task swapper/0/1\n\nCPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.19.0-rc2-00001-g90df023b36dd #28\nCall Trace:\n[c00000001d98f770] [c0000000012baab8] dump_stack_lvl+0xac/0x108 (unreliable)\n[c00000001d98f7b0] [c00000000068faac] print_report+0x37c/0x710\n[c00000001d98f880] [c0000000006902c0] kasan_report+0x110/0x354\n[c00000001d98f950] [c000000000692324] __asan_load8+0xa4/0xe0\n[c00000001d98f970] [c0000000011c6ed0] _find_first_zero_bit+0x40/0x140\n[c00000001d98f9b0] [c0000000000dbfbc] xive_spapr_get_ipi+0xcc/0x260\n[c00000001d98fa70] [c0000000000d6d28] xive_setup_cpu_ipi+0x1e8/0x450\n[c00000001d98fb30] [c000000004032a20] pSeries_smp_probe+0x5c/0x118\n[c00000001d98fb60] [c000000004018b44] smp_prepare_cpus+0x944/0x9ac\n[c00000001d98fc90] [c000000004009f9c] kernel_init_freeable+0x2d4/0x640\n[c00000001d98fd90] [c0000000000131e8] kernel_init+0x28/0x1d0\n[c00000001d98fe10] [c00000000000cd54] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64\n\nAllocated by task 0:\n kasan_save_stack+0x34/0x70\n __kasan_kmalloc+0xb4/0xf0\n __kmalloc+0x268/0x540\n xive_spapr_init+0x4d0/0x77c\n pseries_init_irq+0x40/0x27c\n init_IRQ+0x44/0x84\n start_kernel+0x2a4/0x538\n start_here_common+0x1c/0x20\n\nThe buggy address belongs to the object at c00000001d1d0118\n which belongs to the cache kmalloc-8 of size 8\nThe buggy address is located 0 bytes inside of\n 8-byte region [c00000001d1d0118, c00000001d1d0120)\n\nThe buggy address belongs to the physical page:\npage:c00c000000074740 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xc00000001d1d0558 pfn:0x1d1d\nflags: 0x7ffff000000200(slab|node=0|zone=0|lastcpupid=0x7ffff)\nraw: 007ffff000000200 c00000001d0003c8 c00000001d0003c8 c00000001d010480\nraw: c00000001d1d0558 0000000001e1000a 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000\npage dumped because: kasan: bad access detected\n\nMemory state around the buggy address:\n c00000001d1d0000: fc 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc\n c00000001d1d0080: fc fc 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc\n>c00000001d1d0100: fc fc fc 02 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc\n                            ^\n c00000001d1d0180: fc fc fc fc 04 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc\n c00000001d1d0200: fc fc fc fc fc 04 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc\n\nThis happens because the allocation uses the wrong unit (bits) when it\nshould pass (BITS_TO_LONGS(count) * sizeof(long)) or equivalent. With small\nnumbers of bits, the allocated object can be smaller than sizeof(long),\nwhich results in invalid accesses.\n\nUse bitmap_zalloc() to allocate and initialize the irq bitmap, paired with\nbitmap_free() for consistency.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H","score":7.1},"cwes":["CWE-125"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/10f2cd373e65bcd3be8f3cdc71c330c25763dfd8","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/19fc5bb93c6bbdce8292b4d7eed04e2fa118d2fe","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/99d1c36bddd93919072b5a51a89297bbb5ad6a6f"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T21:59:48.811064707+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2022-49623","score":0.0028,"percentile":0.20547,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}