CVE-2022-49994

bootmem: remove the vmemmap pages from kmemleak in put_page_bootmem

published June 18, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
14.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

bootmem: remove the vmemmap pages from kmemleak in put_page_bootmem

The vmemmap pages is marked by kmemleak when allocated from memblock.

Remove it from kmemleak when freeing the page. Otherwise, when we reuse

the page, kmemleak may report such an error and then stop working.

kmemleak: Cannot insert 0xffff98fb6eab3d40 into the object search tree (overlaps existing)

kmemleak: Kernel memory leak detector disabled

kmemleak: Object 0xffff98fb6be00000 (size 335544320):

kmemleak: comm "swapper", pid 0, jiffies 4294892296

kmemleak: min_count = 0

kmemleak: count = 0

kmemleak: flags = 0x1

kmemleak: checksum = 0

kmemleak: backtrace:

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00243 · 14.6th percentile
Published
2025-06-18T11:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 JUN 11:00Z
    bootmem: remove the vmemmap pages from kmemleak in put_page_bootmem
    cvelistv5