CVE-2022-49076: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/hfi1: Fix use-after-free bug for mm struct Under certain conditions, such as MPI_Abort, the hfi1 cleanup code may represent the last reference held on the task mm. hfi1_mmu_rb_unregister() then drops the last reference and the mm is freed before the final use in hfi1_release_user_pages(). A new task may allocate the mm structure while it is still being used, resulting in problems. One manifestation is corruption of the mmap_sem counter leading to a hang in down_write(). Another is corruption of an mm struct that is in use by another task.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.9.12, before 5.10.111 (fixed in 5.10.111); from 5.11, before 5.15.34 (fixed in 5.15.34); from 5.16, before 5.16.20 (fixed in 5.16.20); from 5.17, before 5.17.3 (fixed in 5.17.3); version 5.18 only

Published 2025-02-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.