# CVE-2022-39188: An issue was discovered in include/asm-generic/tlb.h in the Linux kernel before 5.19.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2022-09-02 · Updated: 2026-10-14

## Affected

No affected packages have been listed by the sources.

## Description

An issue was discovered in include/asm-generic/tlb.h in the Linux kernel before 5.19. Because of a race condition (unmap_mapping_range versus munmap), a device driver can free a page while it still has stale TLB entries. This only occurs in situations with VM_PFNMAP VMAs.

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## References

- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=2329
- https://lore.kernel.org/stable/CAG48ez3SEqOPcPCYGHVZv4iqEApujD5VtM3Re-tCKLDEFdEdbg%40mail.gmail.com/
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.19
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b67fbebd4cf980aecbcc750e1462128bffe8ae15
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b67fbebd4cf980aecbcc750e1462128bffe8ae15
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00000.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5257
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00001.html

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