CVE-2022-49870

High

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>

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.1
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux Kernel
PublishedMay 1, 2025
First seenMay 1, 2025

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux linux_kernel2.6.25 ≤ v < 4.9.334, 4.10 ≤ v < 4.14.300, 4.15 ≤ v < 4.19.267, 4.20 ≤ v < 5.4.225, 5.5 ≤ v < 5.10.155, 5.11 ≤ v < 5.15.79, 5.16 ≤ v < 6.0.9, 6.14.9.334, 4.14.300, 4.19.267, 5.4.225, 5.10.155, 5.15.79, 6.0.9

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