CVE-2022-48904iommu/amd: Fix I/O page table memory leak
- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.21%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 89% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu/amd: Fix I/O page table memory leak The current logic updates the I/O page table mode for the domain before calling the logic to free memory used for the page table. This results in IOMMU page table memory leak, and can be observed when launching VM w/ pass-through devices. Fix by freeing the memory used for page table before updating the mode.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Linux
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 21 months later
· 21 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.21% · top 89% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
- affected e42ba0633064ef23eb1c8c21edf96bac1541bd4b – < 378e2fe1eb58d5c2ed55c8fe5e11f9db5033cdd6
- affected e42ba0633064ef23eb1c8c21edf96bac1541bd4b – < c78627f757e37c2cf386b59c700c4e1574988597
- affected e42ba0633064ef23eb1c8c21edf96bac1541bd4b – < 6b0b2d9a6a308bcd9300c2d83000a82812c56cea
- affected 5.12
- unaffected < 5.12
- unaffected 5.15.27 – ≤ 5.15.*
- unaffected 5.16.13 – ≤ 5.16.*
- unaffected 5.17 – ≤ *
References
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-53783 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2022-48904)Record last updated .