Local process crash via unsupported DMACR access
Published Dec 8, 2025 · Updated May 11, 2026
Denial of service in Linux 4.2 and later before applicable branch fixes allows local users to crash processes on ARM SBSA systems. The shared stop_rx path calls pl011_dma_rx_stop without checking using_rx_dma, causing the SBSA driver to access an unimplemented DMACR register. Reachability requires CONFIG_DMA_ENGINE and an SBSA UART implementation such as Xen vpl011; closing the UART triggers an unhandled data abort and process crash.
Summary
What happened
Denial of service in Linux 4.2 and later before applicable branch fixes allows local users to crash processes on ARM SBSA systems. The shared stop_rx path calls pl011_dma_rx_stop without checking using_rx_dma, causing the SBSA driver to access an unimplemented DMACR register. Reachability requires CONFIG_DMA_ENGINE and an SBSA UART implementation such as Xen vpl011; closing the UART triggers an unhandled data abort and process crash.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-50625
- Published
- Dec 8, 2025
- Updated
- May 11, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- CWE-119
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Dec 8, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 11, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0dd1e247fd39aed20fd2baacc62ca44d82534798 <1c5f0d3f480abd8c26761b6b1f486822e77faea3
- Affected versionversion=0dd1e247fd39aed20fd2baacc62ca44d82534798 <38a10fdd54d17590d45cb1c43b9889da383b6b1a
- Affected versionversion=0dd1e247fd39aed20fd2baacc62ca44d82534798 <64bc5dbc3260230e2f022288c71e5c680059384a
- Affected versionversion=0dd1e247fd39aed20fd2baacc62ca44d82534798 <78d837ce20517e0c1ff3ebe08ad64636e02c2e48
- Affected versionversion=0dd1e247fd39aed20fd2baacc62ca44d82534798 <94cdb9f33698478b0e7062586633c42c6158a786
- Affected versionversion=0dd1e247fd39aed20fd2baacc62ca44d82534798 <965f07ea5fd1b9591bcccc825a93ad883e56222c
- Affected versionversion=0dd1e247fd39aed20fd2baacc62ca44d82534798 <a4ea20ab82aa2b197dc7b08f51e1d615578276a0
- Affected versionversion=0dd1e247fd39aed20fd2baacc62ca44d82534798 <d5b16eb076f46c88d02d41ece5bec4e0d89158bb
- Affected versionversion=0dd1e247fd39aed20fd2baacc62ca44d82534798 <d71a611fca1984c0765f9317ff471ac8cd0e3e2f
- Affected versionversion=4.2
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