CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-49870
7.1 HIGH
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- 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
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/151dc8087b5609e53b069c068e3f3ee100efa586 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/27bdb134c043ff32c459d98f16550d0ffa0b3c34 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46653972e3ea64f79e7f8ae3aa41a4d3fdb70a13 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5661f111a1616ac105ec8cec81bff99b60f847ac Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b79fa628e2ab789e629a83cd211ef9b4c1a593e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65b0bc7a0690861812ade523d19f82688ab819dc Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dbaab08c8677d598244d21afb7818e44e1c5d826 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fcbd2b336834bd24e1d9454ad5737856470c10d7 Patch