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CVE-2022-49983

MEDIUM · 5.5 CVSS v3.1 Published 2025-06-18
Fix available
A fix is available. Upgrade to 5.4.212 / 5.10.141 or later.
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57/100
Remediation priority · Elevated
Zero-click Patch available

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: udmabuf: Set the DMA mask for the udmabuf device (v2) If the DMA mask is not set explicitly, the following warning occurs when the userspace tries to access the dma-buf via the CPU as reported by syzbot here: WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 3595 at kernel/dma/mapping.c:188 __dma_map_sg_attrs+0x181/0x1f0 kernel/dma/mapping.c:188 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 3595 Comm: syz-executor249 Not tainted 5.17.0-rc2-syzkaller-00316-g0457e5153e0e #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011 RIP: 0010:__dma_map_sg_attrs+0x181/0x1f0 kernel/dma/mapping.c:188 Code: 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 c1 e8 03 80 3c 10 00 75 71 4c 8b 3d c0 83 b5 0d e9 db fe ff ff e8 b6 0f 13 00 0f 0b e8 af 0f 13 00 <0f> 0b 45 31 e4 e9 54 ff ff ff e8 a0 0f 13 00 49 8d 7f 50 48 b8 00 RSP: 0018:ffffc90002a07d68 EFLAGS: 00010293 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: ffff88807e25e2c0 RSI: ffffffff81649e91 RDI: ffff88801b848408 RBP: ffff88801b848000 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: ffff88801d86c74f R10: ffffffff81649d72 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000002 R13: ffff88801d86c680 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 0000555556e30300(0000) GS:ffff8880b9d00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00000000200000cc CR3: 000000001d74a000 CR4: 00000000003506e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> dma_map_sgtable+0x70/0xf0 kernel/dma/mapping.c:264 get_sg_table.isra.0+0xe0/0x160 drivers/dma-buf/udmabuf.c:72 begin_cpu_udmabuf+0x130/0x1d0 drivers/dma-buf/udmabuf.c:126 dma_buf_begin_cpu_access+0xfd/0x1d0 drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c:1164 dma_buf_ioctl+0x259/0x2b0 drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c:363 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline] __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:874 [inline] __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:860 [inline] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x193/0x200 fs/ioctl.c:860 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae RIP: 0033:0x7f62fcf530f9 Code: 28 c3 e8 2a 14 00 00 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 c0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48 RSP: 002b:00007ffe3edab9b8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f62fcf530f9 RDX: 0000000020000200 RSI: 0000000040086200 RDI: 0000000000000006 RBP: 00007f62fcf170e0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f62fcf17170 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 </TASK> v2: Dont't forget to deregister if DMA mask setup fails.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.

NVD · CPE data
Linux KernelOperating system
Affected:>= 4.20, < 5.4.212>= 5.5, < 5.10.141>= 5.11, < 5.15.65>= 5.16, < 5.19.7

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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dbcve · scoped
Upgrade available Upgrade to 5.4.212 / 5.10.141 / 5.15.65 or later
Fixed in 5.4.2125.10.1415.15.65
Vendor patch git.kernel.org →
Recommended fix High confidence

Linux Kernel 5.4.212 (for 4.20-5.4.x), 5.10.141 (for 5.5-5.10.x), 5.15.65 (for 5.11-5.15.x), or 5.19.7 (for 5.16-5.19.x)

  1. 1. Identify the currently running Linux kernel version using `uname -r` or `cat /proc/version`
  2. 2. Determine which version range your current kernel falls into (4.20-5.4.x, 5.5-5.10.x, 5.11-5.15.x, or 5.16-5.19.x)
  3. 3. Upgrade the Linux kernel to the first fixed version in your range: 5.4.212, 5.10.141, 5.15.65, or 5.19.7 respectively
  4. 4. Update the package manager and install the new kernel (e.g., `apt-get update && apt-get install linux-image-5.15.65` for Debian-based systems, or `yum update kernel-5.15.65` for RHEL-based systems)
  5. 5. Reboot the system to load the new kernel: `reboot`
  6. 6. Verify the new kernel is running and the udmabuf driver loads correctly: `uname -r` and check `lsmod | grep udmabuf`
  7. 7. If using udmabuf as a module, ensure it's loaded: `modprobe udmabuf`
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