CVE-2022-49557
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-787
Out-of-bounds Write
Publication date:
26/02/2025
Last modified:
22/10/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
x86/fpu: KVM: Set the base guest FPU uABI size to sizeof(struct kvm_xsave)<br />
<br />
Set the starting uABI size of KVM&#39;s guest FPU to &#39;struct kvm_xsave&#39;,<br />
i.e. to KVM&#39;s historical uABI size. When saving FPU state for usersapce,<br />
KVM (well, now the FPU) sets the FP+SSE bits in the XSAVE header even if<br />
the host doesn&#39;t support XSAVE. Setting the XSAVE header allows the VM<br />
to be migrated to a host that does support XSAVE without the new host<br />
having to handle FPU state that may or may not be compatible with XSAVE.<br />
<br />
Setting the uABI size to the host&#39;s default size results in out-of-bounds<br />
writes (setting the FP+SSE bits) and data corruption (that is thankfully<br />
caught by KASAN) when running on hosts without XSAVE, e.g. on Core2 CPUs.<br />
<br />
WARN if the default size is larger than KVM&#39;s historical uABI size; all<br />
features that can push the FPU size beyond the historical size must be<br />
opt-in.<br />
<br />
==================================================================<br />
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in fpu_copy_uabi_to_guest_fpstate+0x86/0x130<br />
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888011e33a00 by task qemu-build/681<br />
CPU: 1 PID: 681 Comm: qemu-build Not tainted 5.18.0-rc5-KASAN-amd64 #1<br />
Hardware name: /DG35EC, BIOS ECG3510M.86A.0118.2010.0113.1426 01/13/2010<br />
Call Trace:<br />
<br />
dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x45<br />
print_report.cold+0x45/0x575<br />
kasan_report+0x9b/0xd0<br />
fpu_copy_uabi_to_guest_fpstate+0x86/0x130<br />
kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl+0x72a/0x1c50 [kvm]<br />
kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x47f/0x7b0 [kvm]<br />
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x5de/0xc90<br />
do_syscall_64+0x31/0x50<br />
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae<br />
<br />
Allocated by task 0:<br />
(stack is not available)<br />
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888011e33800<br />
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-512 of size 512<br />
The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of<br />
512-byte region [ffff888011e33800, ffff888011e33a00)<br />
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:<br />
page:0000000089cd4adb refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x11e30<br />
head:0000000089cd4adb order:2 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0<br />
flags: 0x4000000000010200(slab|head|zone=1)<br />
raw: 4000000000010200 dead000000000100 dead000000000122 ffff888001041c80<br />
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080100010 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000<br />
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected<br />
Memory state around the buggy address:<br />
ffff888011e33900: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00<br />
ffff888011e33980: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00<br />
>ffff888011e33a00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc<br />
^<br />
ffff888011e33a80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc<br />
ffff888011e33b00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc<br />
==================================================================<br />
Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
Impact
Base Score 3.x
5.50
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
Vulnerable products and versions
| CPE | From | Up to |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 5.17 (including) | 5.17.13 (excluding) |
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 5.18 (including) | 5.18.2 (excluding) |
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