CVE-2022-48929

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.15.15-5.15.36 - Out-of-bounds Read in BPF Verifier reg2btf_ids

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix crash due to out of bounds access into reg2btf_ids. When commit e6ac2450d6de ("bpf: Support bpf program calling kernel function") added kfunc support, it defined reg2btf_ids as a cheap way to translate the verifier reg type to the appropriate btf_vmlinux BTF ID, however commit c25b2ae13603 ("bpf: Replace PTR_TO_XXX_OR_NULL with PTR_TO_XXX | PTR_MAYBE_NULL") moved the __BPF_REG_TYPE_MAX from the last member of bpf_reg_type enum to after the base register types, and defined other variants using type flag composition. However, now, the direct usage of reg->type to index into reg2btf_ids may no longer fall into __BPF_REG_TYPE_MAX range, and hence lead to out of bounds access and kernel crash on dereference of bad pointer.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0021
EPSS Percentile 11.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-125
Status published
Products (6)
linux/Kernel 5.16.11 - 5.16.12linux
Linux/Linux 5.16.11 - 5.16.12
Linux/Linux 77459bc4d5e2c6f24db845780b4d9d60cf82d06a - f0ce1bc9e0235dd7412240be493d7ea65ed9eadc
Linux/Linux 8d38cde47a7e17b646401fa92d916503caa5375e - 8c39925e98d498b9531343066ef82ae39e41adae
Linux/Linux c25b2ae136039ffa820c26138ed4a5e5f3ab3841 - 45ce4b4f9009102cd9f581196d480a59208690c1
linux/linux_kernel 5.15.15 - 5.15.37
Published Aug 22, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026