CVE-2022-49001 riscv: fix race when vmap stack overflow

What is CVE-2022-49001?

CVE-2022-49001 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 Oct 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

riscv: fix race when vmap stack overflow

Currently, when detecting vmap stack overflow, riscv firstly switches to the so called shadow stack, then use this shadow stack to call the get_overflow_stack() to get the overflow stack. However, there's a race here if two or more harts use the same shadow stack at the same time.

To solve this race, we introduce spin_shadow_stack atomic var, which will be swap between its own address and 0 in atomic way, when the var is set, it means the shadow_stack is being used; when the var is cleared, it means the shadow_stack isn't being used.

[Palmer: Add AQ to the swap, and also some comments.]

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-49001?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2022-49001?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2022-49001 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49001 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2013-6282 Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2022-0185 Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2026-53362 Linux Kernel Unspecified Exploited High 7.8

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49001, GHSA-5gxq-g22h-vg26, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49001.