5.5

CVE-2022-49885: linux Integer Overflow or Wraparound

CVSS: 5.5v3.1MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49885DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49885
Published 01-05-2025Last modified 11-05-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-49885 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) Integer Overflow or Wraparound vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 12.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
22/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.22%
0%100%
Low · +0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 6 · Related 4

Timeline

  1. 01-05-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ACPI: APEI: Fix integer overflow in ghes_estatus_pool_init() Change num_ghes from int to unsigned int, preventing an overflow and causing subsequent vmalloc() to fail. The overflow happens in ghes_estatus_pool_init() when calculating len during execution of the statement below as both multiplication operands here are signed int: len += (num_ghes * GHES_ESOURCE_PREALLOC_MAX_SIZE); The following call trace is observed because of this bug: [ 9.317108] swapper/0: vmalloc error: size 18446744071562596352, exceeds total pages, mode:0xcc0(GFP_KERNEL), nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0-1 [ 9.317131] Call Trace: [ 9.317134] <TASK> [ 9.317137] dump_stack_lvl+0x49/0x5f [ 9.317145] dump_stack+0x10/0x12 [ 9.317146] warn_alloc.cold+0x7b/0xdf [ 9.317150] ? __device_attach+0x16a/0x1b0 [ 9.317155] __vmalloc_node_range+0x702/0x740 [ 9.317160] ? device_add+0x17f/0x920 [ 9.317164] ? dev_set_name+0x53/0x70 [ 9.317166] ? platform_device_add+0xf9/0x240 [ 9.317168] __vmalloc_node+0x49/0x50 [ 9.317170] ? ghes_estatus_pool_init+0x43/0xa0 [ 9.317176] vmalloc+0x21/0x30 [ 9.317177] ghes_estatus_pool_init+0x43/0xa0 [ 9.317179] acpi_hest_init+0x129/0x19c [ 9.317185] acpi_init+0x434/0x4a4 [ 9.317188] ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x2a/0x2a [ 9.317190] do_one_initcall+0x48/0x200 [ 9.317195] kernel_init_freeable+0x221/0x284 [ 9.317200] ? rest_init+0xe0/0xe0 [ 9.317204] kernel_init+0x1a/0x130 [ 9.317205] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 [ 9.317208] </TASK> [ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ]

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.22%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

12%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.01 pp

From 0.22% on 22-09-2026

22-09-202622-10-2026
EPSS score
0.22%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Ubuntu113 products
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.15.0-60.66
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.15.0-1030.34
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ fb7be08f1a091ec243780bfdad4bf0c492057808, < 9edf20e5a1d805855e78f241cf221d741b50d482 | ≥ fb7be08f1a091ec243780bfdad4bf0c492057808, < c50ec15725e005e9fb20bce69b6c23b135a4a9b7 | ≥ fb7be08f1a091ec243780bfdad4bf0c492057808, < 4c10c854113720cbfe75d4f51db79b700a629e73 | ≥ fb7be08f1a091ec243780bfdad4bf0c492057808, < 43d2748394c3feb86c0c771466f5847e274fc043 | 5.1
  • linux_kernel< 5.10.154 | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.78 | ≥ 5.16, < 6.0.8 | 6.1:rc1
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.0.8-1

3 vendors · 116 products

References

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