CVE-2022-49840

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49840
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49840.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-49840
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-05-01T14:09:56Z
Modified
2026-08-12T03:51:18Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
bpf, test_run: Fix alignment problem in bpf_prog_test_run_skb()
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf, test_run: Fix alignment problem in bpf_prog_test_run_skb()

We got a syzkaller problem because of aarch64 alignment fault if KFENCE enabled. When the size from user bpf program is an odd number, like 399, 407, etc, it will cause the struct skb_shared_info's unaligned access. As seen below:

BUG: KFENCE: use-after-free read in __skb_clone+0x23c/0x2a0 net/core/skbuff.c:1032

Use-after-free read at 0xffff6254fffac077 (in kfence-#213): __lse_atomic_add arch/arm64/include/asm/atomic_lse.h:26 [inline] arch_atomic_add arch/arm64/include/asm/atomic.h:28 [inline] arch_atomic_inc include/linux/atomic-arch-fallback.h:270 [inline] atomic_inc include/asm-generic/atomic-instrumented.h:241 [inline] __skb_clone+0x23c/0x2a0 net/core/skbuff.c:1032 skb_clone+0xf4/0x214 net/core/skbuff.c:1481 ____bpf_clone_redirect net/core/filter.c:2433 [inline] bpf_clone_redirect+0x78/0x1c0 net/core/filter.c:2420 bpf_prog_d3839dd9068ceb51+0x80/0x330 bpf_dispatcher_nop_func include/linux/bpf.h:728 [inline] bpf_test_run+0x3c0/0x6c0 net/bpf/test_run.c:53 bpf_prog_test_run_skb+0x638/0xa7c net/bpf/test_run.c:594 bpf_prog_test_run kernel/bpf/syscall.c:3148 [inline] __do_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4441 [inline] __se_sys_bpf+0xad0/0x1634 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4381

kfence-#213: 0xffff6254fffac000-0xffff6254fffac196, size=407, cache=kmalloc-512

allocated by task 15074 on cpu 0 at 1342.585390s: kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:568 [inline] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:675 [inline] bpf_test_init.isra.0+0xac/0x290 net/bpf/test_run.c:191 bpf_prog_test_run_skb+0x11c/0xa7c net/bpf/test_run.c:512 bpf_prog_test_run kernel/bpf/syscall.c:3148 [inline] __do_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4441 [inline] __se_sys_bpf+0xad0/0x1634 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4381 __arm64_sys_bpf+0x50/0x60 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4381

To fix the problem, we adjust @size so that (@size + @hearoom) is a multiple of SMP_CACHE_BYTES. So we make sure the struct skb_shared_info is aligned to a cache line.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/49xxx/CVE-2022-49840.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
1cf1cae963c2e6032aebe1637e995bc2f5d330f4
Fixed
047824a730699c6c66df43306b80f700c9dfc2fd
Fixed
730fb1ef974a13915bc7651364d8b3318891cd70
Fixed
7a704dbfd3735304e261f2787c52fbc7c3884736
Fixed
e60f37a1d379c821c17b08f366412dce9ef3d99f
Fixed
eaa8edd86514afac9deb9bf9a5053e74f37edf40
Fixed
1b597f2d6a55e9f549989913860ad5170da04964
Fixed
d3fd203f36d46aa29600a72d57a1b61af80e4a25

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49840.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.12.0
Fixed
4.14.300
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.15.0
Fixed
4.19.267
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.20.0
Fixed
5.4.225
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.5.0
Fixed
5.10.156
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
5.15.80
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.0.10

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49840.json"