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CVE-2022-49783

5.5 · MEDIUM
Published May 1, 2025 linux EPSS 0.16% (5th pctl)

Overview

CVE-2022-49783 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting linux linux_kernel. It was published on May 1, 2025 and has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.5 (MEDIUM).

This vulnerability has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.5, rated MEDIUM. It requires local or adjacent network access to exploit. Some level of privileges is required for exploitation.

Technical Description

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

x86/fpu: Drop fpregs lock before inheriting FPU permissions

Mike Galbraith reported the following against an old fork of preempt-rt

but the same issue also applies to the current preempt-rt tree.

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:46

in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 1, name: systemd

preempt_count: 1, expected: 0

RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0

Preemption disabled at:

fpu_clone

CPU: 6 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Tainted: G E (unreleased)

Call Trace:

<TASK>

dump_stack_lvl

? fpu_clone

__might_resched

rt_spin_lock

fpu_clone

? copy_thread

? copy_process

? shmem_alloc_inode

? kmem_cache_alloc

? kernel_clone

? __do_sys_clone

? do_syscall_64

? __x64_sys_rt_sigprocmask

? syscall_exit_to_user_mode

? do_syscall_64

? syscall_exit_to_user_mode

? do_syscall_

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

Vendor Product Versions Status
linux linux_kernel >= 5.16, < 6.0.10 Affected

Frequently Asked Questions

What is CVE-2022-49783?

CVE-2022-49783 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting linux linux_kernel. It was published on May 1, 2025 and has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.5 (MEDIUM).

How severe is CVE-2022-49783?

This vulnerability has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.5, rated MEDIUM. It requires local or adjacent network access to exploit. Some level of privileges is required for exploitation.

How do I fix or remediate CVE-2022-49783?

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

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