CVE-2022-50232

arm64: set UXN on swapper page tables

published June 18, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
9.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

arm64: set UXN on swapper page tables

[ This issue was fixed upstream by accident in c3cee924bd85 ("arm64:

head: cover entire kernel image in initial ID map") as part of a

large refactoring of the arm64 boot flow. This simple fix is therefore

preferred for -stable backporting ]

On a system that implements FEAT_EPAN, read/write access to the idmap

is denied because UXN is not set on the swapper PTEs. As a result,

idmap_kpti_install_ng_mappings panics the kernel when accessing

__idmap_kpti_flag. Fix it by setting UXN on these PTEs.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00200 · 9.3th percentile
Published
2025-06-18T11:04Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 JUN 11:04Z
    arm64: set UXN on swapper page tables
    cvelistv5