Linux Kernel up to 5.15.60/5.18.17/5.19.1 riscv in_atomic memory corruption

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Linux Kernel up to 5.15.60/5.18.17/5.19.1. Affected is the function in_atomic of the component riscv. Performing a manipulation results in memory corruption. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2022-50225. There is not any exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Linux Kernel up to 5.15.60/5.18.17/5.19.1. This affects the function in_atomic of the component riscv. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: riscv:uprobe fix SR_SPIE set/clear handling In riscv the process of uprobe going to clear spie before exec the origin insn,and set spie after that.But When access the page which origin insn has been placed a page fault may happen and irq was disabled in arch_uprobe_pre_xol function,It cause a WARN as follows. There is no need to clear/set spie in arch_uprobe_pre/post/abort_xol. We can just remove it. [ 31.684157] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1488 [ 31.684677] in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 76, name: work [ 31.684929] preempt_count: 0, expected: 0 [ 31.685969] CPU: 2 PID: 76 Comm: work Tainted: G [ 31.686542] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT) [ 31.686797] Call Trace: [ 31.687053] [<ffffffff80006442>] dump_backtrace+0x30/0x38 [ 31.687699] [<ffffffff80812118>] show_stack+0x40/0x4c [ 31.688141] [<ffffffff8081817a>] dump_stack_lvl+0x44/0x5c [ 31.688396] [<ffffffff808181aa>] dump_stack+0x18/0x20 [ 31.688653] [<ffffffff8003e454>] __might_resched+0x114/0x122 [ 31.688948] [<ffffffff8003e4b2>] __might_sleep+0x50/0x7a [ 31.689435] [<ffffffff80822676>] down_read+0x30/0x130 [ 31.689728] [<ffffffff8000b650>] do_page_fault+0x166/x446 [ 31.689997] [<ffffffff80003c0c>] ret_from_exception+0x0/0xc

It is possible to read the advisory at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2022-50225 since 06/18/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 01/14/2026).

Upgrading to version 5.15.61, 5.18.18 or 5.19.2 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch c71e000db8536d27ec410abb3e314896a78b4f19/3811d51778900064d27d8c9a98f73410fb3b471d/73fc099eaefd9a92c83b6c07dad066411fd5a192/3dbe5829408bc1586f75b4667ef60e5aab0209c7 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at git.kernel.org. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-1350). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

Affected

• Debian Linux
• Amazon Linux 2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Ubuntu Linux
• SUSE Linux
• Oracle Linux
• SUSE openSUSE
• Open Source Linux Kernel
• RESF Rocky Linux
• Dell Avamar
• Dell NetWorker
• Dell Secure Connect Gateway
• IBM QRadar SIEM

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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 5.15.0
• 5.15.1
• 5.15.2
• 5.15.3
• 5.15.4
• 5.15.5
• 5.15.6
• 5.15.7
• 5.15.8
• 5.15.9
• 5.15.10
• 5.15.11
• 5.15.12
• 5.15.13
• 5.15.14
• 5.15.15
• 5.15.16
• 5.15.17
• 5.15.18
• 5.15.19
• 5.15.20
• 5.15.21
• 5.15.22
• 5.15.23
• 5.15.24
• 5.15.25
• 5.15.26
• 5.15.27
• 5.15.28
• 5.15.29
• 5.15.30
• 5.15.31
• 5.15.32
• 5.15.33
• 5.15.34
• 5.15.35
• 5.15.36
• 5.15.37
• 5.15.38
• 5.15.39
• 5.15.40
• 5.15.41
• 5.15.42
• 5.15.43
• 5.15.44
• 5.15.45
• 5.15.46
• 5.15.47
• 5.15.48
• 5.15.49
• 5.15.50
• 5.15.51
• 5.15.52
• 5.15.53
• 5.15.54
• 5.15.55
• 5.15.56
• 5.15.57
• 5.15.58
• 5.15.59
• 5.15.60
• 5.18.0
• 5.18.1
• 5.18.2
• 5.18.3
• 5.18.4
• 5.18.5
• 5.18.6
• 5.18.7
• 5.18.8
• 5.18.9
• 5.18.10
• 5.18.11
• 5.18.12
• 5.18.13
• 5.18.14
• 5.18.15
• 5.18.16
• 5.18.17
• 5.19.0
• 5.19.1

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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