CVE-2022-49870

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
Publication date:
01/05/2025
Last modified:
10/11/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> capabilities: fix undefined behavior in bit shift for CAP_TO_MASK<br /> <br /> Shifting signed 32-bit value by 31 bits is undefined, so changing<br /> significant bit to unsigned. The UBSAN warning calltrace like below:<br /> <br /> UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in security/commoncap.c:1252:2<br /> left shift of 1 by 31 places cannot be represented in type &amp;#39;int&amp;#39;<br /> Call Trace:<br /> <br /> dump_stack_lvl+0x7d/0xa5<br /> dump_stack+0x15/0x1b<br /> ubsan_epilogue+0xe/0x4e<br /> __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x1e7/0x20c<br /> cap_task_prctl+0x561/0x6f0<br /> security_task_prctl+0x5a/0xb0<br /> __x64_sys_prctl+0x61/0x8f0<br /> do_syscall_64+0x58/0x80<br /> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd<br />

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 2.6.25 (including) 4.9.334 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 4.10 (including) 4.14.300 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 4.15 (including) 4.19.267 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 4.20 (including) 5.4.225 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 5.5 (including) 5.10.155 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 5.11 (including) 5.15.79 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 5.16 (including) 6.0.9 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.1:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.1:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.1:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.1:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*