CVE-2022-50341

CVE-2022-50341

High · published September 16, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
1.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

cifs: fix oops during encryption

When running xfstests against Azure the following oops occurred on an

arm64 system

Unable to handle kernel write to read-only memory at virtual address

ffff0001221cf000

Mem abort info:

ESR = 0x9600004f

EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits

SET = 0, FnV = 0

EA = 0, S1PTW = 0

FSC = 0x0f: level 3 permission fault

Data abort info:

ISV = 0, ISS = 0x0000004f

CM = 0, WnR = 1

swapper pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=00000000294f3000

[ffff0001221cf000] pgd=18000001ffff8003, p4d=18000001ffff8003,

pud=18000001ff82e003, pmd=18000001ff71d003, pte=00600001221cf787

Internal error: Oops: 9600004f [#1] PREEMPT SMP

...

pstate: 80000005 (Nzcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--)

pc : __memcpy+0x40/0x230

lr : scatterwalk_copychunks+0xe0/0x200

sp : ffff800014e92de0

x29: ffff800014e92de0 x28: ffff000114f9de80 x27: 0000000000000008

x26: 0000000000000008 x25: ffff800014e92e78 x24: 0000000000000008

x23: 0000000000000001 x22: 0000040000000000 x21: ffff000000000000

x20: 0000000000000001 x19: ffff0001037c4488 x18: 0000000000000014

x17: 235e1c0d6efa9661 x16: a435f9576b6edd6c x15: 0000000000000058

x14: 0000000000000001 x13: 0000000000000008 x12: ffff000114f2e590

x11: ffffffffffffffff x10: 0000040000000000 x9 : ffff8000105c3580

x8 : 2e9413b10000001a x7 : 534b4410fb86b005 x6 : 534b4410fb86b005

x5 : ffff0001221cf008 x4 : ffff0001037c4490 x3 : 0000000000000001

x2 : 0000000000000008 x1 : ffff0001037c4488 x0 : ffff0001221cf000

Call trace:

__memcpy+0x40/0x230

scatterwalk_map_and_copy+0x98/0x100

crypto_ccm_encrypt+0x150/0x180

crypto_aead_encrypt+0x2c/0x40

crypt_message+0x750/0x880

smb3_init_transform_rq+0x298/0x340

smb_send_rqst.part.11+0xd8/0x180

smb_send_rqst+0x3c/0x100

compound_send_recv+0x534/0xbc0

smb2_query_info_compound+0x32c/0x440

smb2_set_ea+0x438/0x4c0

cifs_xattr_set+0x5d4/0x7c0

This is because in scatterwalk_copychunks(), we attempted to write to

a buffer (@sign) that was allocated in the stack (vmalloc area) by

crypt_message() and thus accessing its remaining 8 (x2) bytes ended up

crossing a page boundary.

To simply fix it, we could just pass @sign kmalloc'd from

crypt_message() and then we're done. Luckily, we don't seem to pass

any other vmalloc'd buffers in smb_rqst::rq_iov...

Instead, let's map the correct pages and offsets from vmalloc buffers

as well in cifs_sg_set_buf() and then avoiding such oopses.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00110 · 1.2th percentile
Published
2025-09-16T21:15Z
Affected products (5)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel< 5.4.2295.4.229
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.5, < 5.10.1635.10.163
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.11, < 5.15.875.15.87
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.16, < 6.0.166.0.16
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.1, < 6.1.16.1.1
References (6)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 16 SEP 16:11Z
    cifs: fix oops during encryption
    cvelistv5