CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-49870

7.1 HIGH Published 2025-05-01 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-05-01
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-125

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: capabilities: fix undefined behavior in bit shift for CAP_TO_MASK Shifting signed 32-bit value by 31 bits is undefined, so changing significant bit to unsigned. The UBSAN warning calltrace like below: UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in security/commoncap.c:1252:2 left shift of 1 by 31 places cannot be represented in type 'int' Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x7d/0xa5 dump_stack+0x15/0x1b ubsan_epilogue+0xe/0x4e __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x1e7/0x20c cap_task_prctl+0x561/0x6f0 security_task_prctl+0x5a/0xb0 __x64_sys_prctl+0x61/0x8f0 do_syscall_64+0x58/0x80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd </TASK>

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.25 < 4.9.334) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.14.300) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.267) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.225) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.155) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.79) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.0.9) • linux linux kernel 6.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness

References