CVE-2022-49634 (GCVE-0-2022-49634)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-26 02:23 – Updated: 2025-10-01 19:36
VLAI?
Title
sysctl: Fix data-races in proc_dou8vec_minmax().
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sysctl: Fix data-races in proc_dou8vec_minmax(). A sysctl variable is accessed concurrently, and there is always a chance of data-race. So, all readers and writers need some basic protection to avoid load/store-tearing. This patch changes proc_dou8vec_minmax() to use READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() internally to fix data-races on the sysctl side. For now, proc_dou8vec_minmax() itself is tolerant to a data-race, but we still need to add annotations on the other subsystem's side.
Severity ?
4.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-362 - Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 389dab6142d742f91010f38de0f1f2f440b97e1b , < f177b382c33900d0e5a9766493c11a1074076f78 (git)
Affected: cb9444130662c6c13022579c861098f212db2562 , < e58b02e445463065b4078bf621561da75197853f (git)
Affected: cb9444130662c6c13022579c861098f212db2562 , < 5f776daef0b5354615ec4b4234cd9539ca05f273 (git)
Affected: cb9444130662c6c13022579c861098f212db2562 , < 7dee5d7747a69aa2be41f04c6a7ecfe3ac8cdf18 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 5.13
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.13 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.56 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.18.13 , ≤ 5.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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