CVE-2022-49870

Updated: 2026-02-08 03:23:54.899585

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>


Links NIST CIRCL RHEL Ubuntu

Severity

Severity Score
CVSS Version 2.x 0.0
CVSS Version 3.x HIGH 7.1

Status

OS name Project name Version Score Severity Status Errata Last updated

Statement

CentOS 6 ELS kernel 2.6.32 7.1 HIGH Released CLSA-2026:1768669128 2026-01-28 13:00:08
CentOS 7 ELS kernel 3.10.0 7.1 HIGH Released CLSA-2025:1766617167 2026-01-12 18:12:54
CentOS 8.4 ELS kernel 4.18.0 7.1 HIGH Needs Triage 2026-01-17 01:40:56
CentOS 8.5 ELS kernel 4.18.0 7.1 HIGH Released CLSA-2026:1768775579 2026-01-19 10:24:49
Oracle Linux 6 ELS kernel 2.6.32 7.1 HIGH Released CLSA-2026:1769610819 2026-01-28 21:23:48
Oracle Linux 7 ELS kernel 3.10.0 7.1 HIGH Released CLSA-2025:1766599987 2025-12-25 14:33:44
RHEL 7 ELS kernel 3.10.0 7.1 HIGH Released CLSA-2025:1766600619 2025-12-25 14:33:26
Ubuntu 16.04 ELS linux-hwe 4.15.0 7.1 HIGH Already Fixed 2025-11-28 16:25:47
Ubuntu 16.04 ELS linux 4.4.0 7.1 HIGH In Testing 2025-11-28 16:21:48