CVE-2022-49870

UNKNOWN 0.0

capabilities: fix undefined behavior in bit shift for CAP_TO_MASK

CVSS Score

0.0

EPSS Score

0.0%

EPSS Percentile

0th

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>

Vendor	linux
Product	linux
Ecosystems	Linux Kernel
Industries	Technology
Published	May 1, 2025
Last Updated	May 11, 2026

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Affected Versions

Linux / Linux

e338d263a76af78fe8f38a72131188b58fceb591 < 5b79fa628e2ab789e629a83cd211ef9b4c1a593e e338d263a76af78fe8f38a72131188b58fceb591 < 65b0bc7a0690861812ade523d19f82688ab819dc e338d263a76af78fe8f38a72131188b58fceb591 < dbaab08c8677d598244d21afb7818e44e1c5d826 e338d263a76af78fe8f38a72131188b58fceb591 < 5661f111a1616ac105ec8cec81bff99b60f847ac e338d263a76af78fe8f38a72131188b58fceb591 < fcbd2b336834bd24e1d9454ad5737856470c10d7 e338d263a76af78fe8f38a72131188b58fceb591 < 151dc8087b5609e53b069c068e3f3ee100efa586 e338d263a76af78fe8f38a72131188b58fceb591 < 27bdb134c043ff32c459d98f16550d0ffa0b3c34 e338d263a76af78fe8f38a72131188b58fceb591 < 46653972e3ea64f79e7f8ae3aa41a4d3fdb70a13

Linux / Linux

2.6.25

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗