PT-2025-26044 · Linux+2 · Linux Kernel+2

Published 2022-05-22 · Updated 2025-07-28 · CVE-2022-50118

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)

Description A vulnerability in the Linux kernel has been resolved. The issue is related to the powerpc/perf component, where a warning is triggered when there is a PMI pending in Paca but no counter is found overflown. This warning is not needed, as the PMC overflown could be from an inactive event. The vulnerability is related to the function pmi irq pending in hw irq.h, which checks if there is a PMI marked as pending in Paca. The estimated number of potentially affected devices worldwide is not available. There is no information about real-world incidents where this issue was exploited.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Uncontrolled Recursion

Code Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-674

CWE-94

Related Identifiers

BDU:2026-03261

CVE-2022-50118

SUSE-SU-2025:02264-1

SUSE-SU-2025:02308-1

SUSE-SU-2025:02320-1

SUSE-SU-2025:02321-1

SUSE-SU-2025:02322-1

SUSE-SU-2025:02537-1

SUSE-SU-2025:2264-1

SUSE-SU-2025_02264-1

SUSE-SU-2025_02308-1

SUSE-SU-2025_02537-1

Affected Products

Astra Linux

Linux Kernel

Suse

References · 604

• 🔥 https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/50xxx/CVE-2022-50118.json · Exploit
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/875b2bf469d094754ac2ba9af91dcd529eb12bf6 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2025:02308-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50118 · Vendor Advisory
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87b1a9175f08313f40fcb6d6dc536dbe451090eb · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2025:02537-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50118 · Vendor Advisory
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a24ea26c3278216642a43291df7976a73a0a7ee · Patch
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-50118 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-50118 · Vendor Advisory
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/890005a7d98f7452cfe86dcfb2aeeb7df01132ce · Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e83af3dd4a3afca8f83ffde518cafd52f45b830 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2025:02264-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-50118 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2025:02322-1 · Vendor Advisory