CVE-2022-49970

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Moderate Moderate Impact What does this mean?
4.7 CVSS v3 Base Score

Description

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf, cgroup: Fix kernel BUG in purge_effective_progs Syzkaller reported a triggered kernel BUG as follows: ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at kernel/bpf/cgroup.c:925! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI CPU: 1 PID: 194 Comm: detach Not tainted 5.19.0-14184-g69dac8e431af #8 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:__cgroup_bpf_detach+0x1f2/0x2a0 Code: 00 e8 92 60 30 00 84 c0 75 d8 4c 89 e0 31 f6 85 f6 74 19 42 f6 84 28 48 05 00 00 02 75 0e 48 8b 80 c0 00 00 00 48 85 c0 75 e5 <0f> 0b 48 8b 0c5 RSP: 0018:ffffc9000055bdb0 EFLAGS: 00000246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888100ec0800 RCX: ffffc900000f1000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff888100ec4578 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffff888100ec0800 R09: 0000000000000040 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff888100ec4000 R13: 000000000000000d R14: ffffc90000199000 R15: ffff888100effb00 FS: 00007f68213d2b80(0000) GS:ffff88813bc80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 000055f74a0e5850 CR3: 0000000102836000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 Call Trace: <TASK> cgroup_bpf_prog_detach+0xcc/0x100 __sys_bpf+0x2273/0x2a00 __x64_sys_bpf+0x17/0x20 do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd RIP: 0033:0x7f68214dbcb9 Code: 08 44 89 e0 5b 41 5c c3 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff8 RSP: 002b:00007ffeb487db68 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000141 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000000000000000b RCX: 00007f68214dbcb9 RDX: 0000000000000090 RSI: 00007ffeb487db70 RDI: 0000000000000009 RBP: 0000000000000003 R08: 0000000000000012 R09: 0000000b00000003 R10: 00007ffeb487db70 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffeb487dc20 R13: 0000000000000004 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 000055f74a1011b0 </TASK> Modules linked in: ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- Repetition steps: For the following cgroup tree, root | cg1 | cg2 1. attach prog2 to cg2, and then attach prog1 to cg1, both bpf progs attach type is NONE or OVERRIDE. 2. write 1 to /proc/thread-self/fail-nth for failslab. 3. detach prog1 for cg1, and then kernel BUG occur. Failslab injection will cause kmalloc fail and fall back to purge_effective_progs. The problem is that cg2 have attached another prog, so when go through cg2 layer, iteration will add pos to 1, and subsequent operations will be skipped by the following condition, and cg will meet NULL in the end. `if (pos && !(cg->bpf.flags[atype] & BPF_F_ALLOW_MULTI))` The NULL cg means no link or prog match, this is as expected, and it's not a bug. So here just skip the no match situation.

Additional Information

External References

Content from www.cve.org is not included.https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49970

Content from nvd.nist.gov is not included.https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49970

Content from lore.kernel.org is not included.https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025061817-CVE-2022-49970-2d63@gregkh/T

Affected Packages and Issued Red Hat Security Errata

Products / Services Components State Errata
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 kernel Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 kernel Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 kernel-rt Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 kernel Fix deferred
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 kernel-rt Fix deferred
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 kernel-rt Fix deferred
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 kernel Fixed RHSA-2023:2458
Unless explicitly stated as not affected, all previous versions of packages in any minor update stream of a product listed here should be assumed vulnerable, although may not have been subject to full analysis.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details

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CVSS v3 Score Breakdown Red Hat NVD
CVSS v3 Base Score 4.7 7.1
Attack Vector Local Local
Attack Complexity High Low
Privileges Required High Low
User Interaction None None
Scope Unchanged Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None High
Integrity Impact Low None
Availability Impact High High

CVSS v3 Vector

Red Hat CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

NVD CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

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