CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-49180
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-02-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
LSM: general protection fault in legacy_parse_param
The usual LSM hook "bail on fail" scheme doesn't work for cases where
a security module may return an error code indicating that it does not
recognize an input. In this particular case Smack sees a mount option
that it recognizes, and returns 0. A call to a BPF hook follows, which
returns -ENOPARAM, which confuses the caller because Smack has processed
its data.
The SELinux hook incorrectly returns 1 on success. There was a time
when this was correct, however the current expectation is that it
return 0 on success. This is repaired.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 5.4.189)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.110)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.33)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.16.19)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.17 < 5.17.2)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00fc07fa0b4a004711b6e1a944f0d2e46f7093b7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2784604c8c6fc523248f8f80a421c313a9d790b7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cadae7c5e477aaafcba819b8e4a3d1c1a1503b62 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ddcdda888e14ca451b3ee83d11b65b2a9c8e783b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ecff30575b5ad0eda149aadad247b7f75411fd47 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f3f93a1aaafc3032e0a9655fb43deccfb3e953a3 Patch