Local privilege escalation via QAT DH heap overflow
Published Feb 26, 2025 · Updated Aug 5, 2026
Heap corruption in the Linux QAT Diffie-Hellman path allows local users to gain kernel privileges through oversized shared-secret input. In qat_dh_compute_value, a source length larger than the key size underflows a subtraction before scatterlist data is copied into a linear heap buffer. Exploitation requires local syscall access and compatible Intel QAT hardware selecting qat-dh, enabling kernel memory corruption, a panic, or privilege escalation.
Summary
What happened
Heap corruption in the Linux QAT Diffie-Hellman path allows local users to gain kernel privileges through oversized shared-secret input. In qat_dh_compute_value, a source length larger than the key size underflows a subtraction before scatterlist data is copied into a linear heap buffer. Exploitation requires local syscall access and compatible Intel QAT hardware selecting qat-dh, enabling kernel memory corruption, a panic, or privilege escalation.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-49564
- Published
- Feb 26, 2025
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- CWE-191, T1068
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Feb 26, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 5, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=4.8
- Affected versionversion=c9839143ebbf5e821128da44f7e271d745aab19e <2acbb8771f6ac82422886e63832ee7a0f4b1635b
- Affected versionversion=c9839143ebbf5e821128da44f7e271d745aab19e <76c9216833e7c20a67c987cf89719a3f01666aaa
- Affected versionversion=c9839143ebbf5e821128da44f7e271d745aab19e <e7f979ed51f96495328157df663c835b17db1e30
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