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        "cveId": "CVE-2022-50159",
        "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
        "state": "PUBLISHED",
        "assignerShortName": "Linux",
        "dateReserved": "2025-06-18T10:57:27.425Z",
        "datePublished": "2025-06-18T11:03:15.826Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-05-11T19:13:56.896Z"
    },
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                "dateUpdated": "2026-05-11T19:13:56.896Z"
            },
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                    "lang": "en",
                    "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nof: check previous kernel's ima-kexec-buffer against memory bounds\n\nPresently ima_get_kexec_buffer() doesn't check if the previous kernel's\nima-kexec-buffer lies outside the addressable memory range. This can result\nin a kernel panic if the new kernel is booted with 'mem=X' arg and the\nima-kexec-buffer was allocated beyond that range by the previous kernel.\nThe panic is usually of the form below:\n\n$ sudo kexec --initrd initrd vmlinux --append='mem=16G'\n\n<snip>\n BUG: Unable to handle kernel data access on read at 0xc000c01fff7f0000\n Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000837974\n Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]\n<snip>\n NIP [c000000000837974] ima_restore_measurement_list+0x94/0x6c0\n LR [c00000000083b55c] ima_load_kexec_buffer+0xac/0x160\n Call Trace:\n [c00000000371fa80] [c00000000083b55c] ima_load_kexec_buffer+0xac/0x160\n [c00000000371fb00] [c0000000020512c4] ima_init+0x80/0x108\n [c00000000371fb70] [c0000000020514dc] init_ima+0x4c/0x120\n [c00000000371fbf0] [c000000000012240] do_one_initcall+0x60/0x2c0\n [c00000000371fcc0] [c000000002004ad0] kernel_init_freeable+0x344/0x3ec\n [c00000000371fda0] [c0000000000128a4] kernel_init+0x34/0x1b0\n [c00000000371fe10] [c00000000000ce64] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64\n Instruction dump:\n f92100b8 f92100c0 90e10090 910100a0 4182050c 282a0017 3bc00000 40810330\n 7c0802a6 fb610198 7c9b2378 f80101d0 <a1240000> 2c090001 40820614 e9240010\n ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---\n\nFix this issue by checking returned PFN range of previous kernel's\nima-kexec-buffer with page_is_ram() to ensure correct memory bounds."
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                    "vendor": "Linux",
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                    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
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                        "drivers/of/kexec.c"
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                            "version": "5.15.61",
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                            "status": "unaffected",
                            "versionType": "semver"
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                        {
                            "version": "5.18.18",
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                            "status": "unaffected",
                            "versionType": "semver"
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                        {
                            "version": "5.19.2",
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                            "status": "unaffected",
                            "versionType": "semver"
                        },
                        {
                            "version": "6.0",
                            "lessThanOrEqual": "*",
                            "status": "unaffected",
                            "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"
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                    "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cbf9c4b9617b6767886a913705ca14b7600c77db"
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