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Fencer Vulns
high 7.1

CVE-2022-49401 json

mm/page_owner: use strscpy() instead of strlcpy()

published 2025-02-26 20 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-54828

cvss
7.1
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 18%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

mm/page_owner: use strscpy() instead of strlcpy()

current->comm[] is not a string (no guarantee for a zero byte in it).

strlcpy(s1, s2, l) is calling strlen(s2), potentially causing out-of-bound access, as reported by syzbot:

detected buffer overflow in __fortify_strlen ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at lib/string_helpers.c:980! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN CPU: 0 PID: 4087 Comm: dhcpcd-run-hooks Not tainted 5.18.0-rc3-syzkaller-01537-g20b87e7c29df #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011 RIP: 0010:fortify_panic+0x18/0x1a lib/string_helpers.c:980 Code: 8c e8 c5 ba e1 fa e9 23 0f bf fa e8 0b 5d 8c f8 eb db 55 48 89 fd e8 e0 49 40 f8 48 89 ee 48 c7 c7 80 f5 26 8a e8 99 09 f1 ff <0f> 0b e8 ca 49 40 f8 48 8b 54 24 18 4c 89 f1 48 c7 c7 00 00 27 8a RSP: 0018:ffffc900000074a8 EFLAGS: 00010286

RAX: 000000000000002c RBX: ffff88801226b728 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: ffff8880198e0000 RSI: ffffffff81600458 RDI: fffff52000000e87 RBP: ffffffff89da2aa0 R08: 000000000000002c R09: 0000000000000000 R10: ffffffff815fae2e R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88801226b700 R13: ffff8880198e0830 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b9c00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f5876ad6ff8 CR3: 000000001a48c000 CR4: 00000000003506f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000600 Call Trace: <IRQ> __fortify_strlen include/linux/fortify-string.h:128 [inline] strlcpy include/linux/fortify-string.h:143 [inline] __set_page_owner_handle+0x2b1/0x3e0 mm/page_owner.c:171 __set_page_owner+0x3e/0x50 mm/page_owner.c:190 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2441 [inline] get_page_from_freelist+0xba2/0x3e00 mm/page_alloc.c:4182 __alloc_pages+0x1b2/0x500 mm/page_alloc.c:5408 alloc_pages+0x1aa/0x310 mm/mempolicy.c:2272 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:1799 [inline] allocate_slab+0x26c/0x3c0 mm/slub.c:1944 new_slab mm/slub.c:2004 [inline] ___slab_alloc+0x8df/0xf20 mm/slub.c:3005 __slab_alloc.constprop.0+0x4d/0xa0 mm/slub.c:3092 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3183 [inline] slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3225 [inline] __kmem_cache_alloc_lru mm/slub.c:3232 [inline] kmem_cache_alloc+0x360/0x3b0 mm/slub.c:3242 dst_alloc+0x146/0x1f0 net/core/dst.c:92

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 5.18.3, 5.19
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.18.5-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49401

  • kernel RHEL 8 4.18.0-513.5.1.el8_9
  • perf RHEL 8 4.18.0-513.5.1.el8_9
  • bpftool RHEL 8 4.18.0-513.5.1.el8_9
  • kernel-core RHEL 8 4.18.0-513.5.1.el8_9
  • kernel-tools RHEL 8 4.18.0-513.5.1.el8_9
  • python3-perf RHEL 8 4.18.0-513.5.1.el8_9
  • kernel-modules RHEL 8 4.18.0-513.5.1.el8_9
  • kernel-zfcpdump RHEL 8 4.18.0-513.5.1.el8_9

red hat advisories RHSA-2023:7077RHSA-2023:2458

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-49401 updated cvss 7.0

kernel: mm/page_owner: use strscpy() instead of strlcpy()

  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 4.18.0-513.5.1.el8_9, kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 4.18.0-513.5.1.el8_9, kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64le 4.18.0-513.5.1.el8_9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:7077
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) perf 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2, rtla 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2, kernel-devel-matched 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2, kernel-64k-devel-matched 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2, kernel-debug-devel-matched 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2, kernel-debuginfo-common-s390x 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2, +5 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:2458
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) perf 4.18.0-513.5.1.el8_9, kernel 4.18.0-513.5.1.el8_9, bpftool 4.18.0-513.5.1.el8_9, kernel-core 4.18.0-513.5.1.el8_9, kernel-tools 4.18.0-513.5.1.el8_9, python3-perf 4.18.0-513.5.1.el8_9, +15 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:7077
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9) bpftool 7.0.0-284.11.1.el9_2, kernel 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2, kernel-64k 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2, kernel-core 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2, kernel-tools 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2, python3-perf 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2, +28 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 9) kernel-debuginfo-common-s390x 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2, kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2, kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2, kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64le 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:2458
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 kernel-rt, kernel-rt-kvm, kernel-rt-core, kernel-rt-modules, kernel-rt-debug-kvm, kernel-rt-debug-core, +6 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 kernel-rt, kernel-rt-kvm, kernel-rt-core, kernel-rt-modules, kernel-rt-debug-kvm, kernel-rt-debug-core, +12 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 18% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

Classification

Weakness
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References

Sources

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