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CVE-2022-39188

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.7 Published: 2022-09-02 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux KernelDebian Debian Linux

Weakness Type

CWE-362

References