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    "cveMetadata": {
        "cveId": "CVE-2022-50675",
        "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
        "state": "PUBLISHED",
        "assignerShortName": "Linux",
        "dateReserved": "2025-12-09T01:26:45.991Z",
        "datePublished": "2025-12-09T01:29:27.926Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-05-11T19:23:36.334Z"
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                    "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\narm64: mte: Avoid setting PG_mte_tagged if no tags cleared or restored\n\nPrior to commit 69e3b846d8a7 (\"arm64: mte: Sync tags for pages where PTE\nis untagged\"), mte_sync_tags() was only called for pte_tagged() entries\n(those mapped with PROT_MTE). Therefore mte_sync_tags() could safely use\ntest_and_set_bit(PG_mte_tagged, &page->flags) without inadvertently\nsetting PG_mte_tagged on an untagged page.\n\nThe above commit was required as guests may enable MTE without any\ncontrol at the stage 2 mapping, nor a PROT_MTE mapping in the VMM.\nHowever, the side-effect was that any page with a PTE that looked like\nswap (or migration) was getting PG_mte_tagged set automatically. A\nsubsequent page copy (e.g. migration) copied the tags to the destination\npage even if the tags were owned by KASAN.\n\nThis issue was masked by the page_kasan_tag_reset() call introduced in\ncommit e5b8d9218951 (\"arm64: mte: reset the page tag in page->flags\").\nWhen this commit was reverted (20794545c146), KASAN started reporting\naccess faults because the overriding tags in a page did not match the\noriginal page->flags (with CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS=y):\n\n  BUG: KASAN: invalid-access in copy_page+0x10/0xd0 arch/arm64/lib/copy_page.S:26\n  Read at addr f5ff000017f2e000 by task syz-executor.1/2218\n  Pointer tag: [f5], memory tag: [f2]\n\nMove the PG_mte_tagged bit setting from mte_sync_tags() to the actual\nplace where tags are cleared (mte_sync_page_tags()) or restored\n(mte_restore_tags())."
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                    "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/918002bdbe4328c8c0164a22e8ebf2384b80dc23"
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                    "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8e5e5146ad08d794c58252bab00b261045ef16d"
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