CVE-2022-50630 Affecting kernel-cross-headers package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (4th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS9-KERNELCROSSHEADERS-14288099
  • published10 Dec 2025
  • disclosed8 Dec 2025

Introduced: 8 Dec 2025

NewCVE-2022-50630  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:9 kernel-cross-headers.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-cross-headers package and not the kernel-cross-headers package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

mm: hugetlb: fix UAF in hugetlb_handle_userfault

The vma_lock and hugetlb_fault_mutex are dropped before handling userfault and reacquire them again after handle_userfault(), but reacquire the vma_lock could lead to UAF[1,2] due to the following race,

hugetlb_fault hugetlb_no_page /unlock vma_lock / hugetlb_handle_userfault handle_userfault / unlock mm->mmap_lock/ vm_mmap_pgoff do_mmap mmap_region munmap_vma_range /* clean old vma / / lock vma_lock again <--- UAF / / unlock vma_lock */

Since the vma_lock will unlock immediately after hugetlb_handle_userfault(), let's drop the unneeded lock and unlock in hugetlb_handle_userfault() to fix the issue.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/000000000000d5e00a05e834962e@google.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20220921014457.1668-1-liuzixian4@huawei.com/

CVSS Base Scores

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