CVE-2022-39188
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CVE-2022-39188
An issue was discovered in include/asm-generic/tlb.h in the Linux kernel before 5.19. Because of a race condition (unmap_mapping_range versus munmap), a device driver can free a page while it still has stale TLB entries. This only occurs in situations with VM_PFNMAP VMAs.
Exploit probability
0.2%
Published
September 2, 2022
Required by
Not available
Last source change
August 12, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
735 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2022-39188
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An issue was discovered in include/asm-generic/tlb.h in the Linux kernel before 5.19. Because of a race condition (unmap_mapping_range versus munmap), a device driver can free a page while it still has stale TLB entries. This only occurs in situations with VM_PFNMAP VMAs.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=2329
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.19
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b67fbebd4cf980aecbcc750e1462128bffe8ae15
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/39xxx/CVE-2022-39188.json
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b67fbebd4cf980aecbcc750e1462128bffe8ae15
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00000.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00001.html
- https://lore.kernel.org/stable/CAG48ez3SEqOPcPCYGHVZv4iqEApujD5VtM3Re-tCKLDEFdEdbg%40mail.gmail.com/
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-39188
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5257