Bug 2363388 (CVE-2022-49870) - CVE-2022-49870 kernel: capabilities: fix undefined behavior in bit shift for CAP_TO_MASK
Summary: CVE-2022-49870 kernel: capabilities: fix undefined behavior in bit shift for ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-49870
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-05-01 15:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-05-02 03:25 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-01 15:02:51 UTC
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>

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-05-02 03:19:49 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050150-CVE-2022-49870-774b@gregkh/T


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