Bug 2348229 (CVE-2022-49180)

Summary: CVE-2022-49180 kernel: LSM: general protection fault in legacy_parse_param
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-02-26 03:22:08 UTC
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.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-02-26 21:54:41 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022614-CVE-2022-49180-ac1e@gregkh/T